{"id":30447,"date":"2021-05-01T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T00:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30447"},"modified":"2021-05-02T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T17:36:44","slug":"orchid-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30447","title":{"rendered":"Orchid season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wild orchid season begins in May and, spanning a number of species, seems to run through July. Indeed, on May 1<sup>st<\/sup> there appeared the particularly early-season orchid, the Fairy Slipper. And it appeared in surprisingly great numbers (last year there had been few).<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of the western variety of Fairy Slipper appeared on the hillside.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30448\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/fairyslipper210501as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found this small group of Fairy Slippers particularly appealing. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30449\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/fairyslipper210501bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wild orchid season begins in May and, spanning a number of species, seems to run through July. Indeed, on May 1st there appeared the particularly early-season orchid, the Fairy Slipper. And it appeared in surprisingly great numbers (last year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30463,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions\/30463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}