{"id":176242,"date":"2023-12-01T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=176242"},"modified":"2023-12-27T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T22:06:40","slug":"red-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/red-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-640x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"543\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-176243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-640x543.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-1024x869.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-1536x1303.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-2048x1738.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catt-4-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first of this year&#8217;s new orchids bloomed this week. It&#8217;s another red one; nice, but not what I was expecting. The dealer&#8217;s notes<span id='easy-footnote-1-176242' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/red-again\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-176242' title='Scroll &amp;#8216;way down to &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/sunsetvalleyorchids.com\/htm\/offerings_cattleya_compact.html&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SVO 9835&lt;\/a&gt;'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> indicated that it would likely have flowers in the magenta-purple range, but while it does have a bluish cast in some light (but not in sunlight or with the on-camera flash), it looks red to me. The other new ones probably won&#8217;t bloom for a year or two. When they finally do, one should be white and the other spotted.<\/p>\n<p>(As usual, when WordPress resizes pictures to fit the column width, it also makes the colors duller. Click on the picture to see it larger and with more accurate color.)<\/p>\n<p>Update: as the flower ages, it becomes bluer. It now is on the border between magenta and purple, even in sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of this year&#8217;s new orchids bloomed this week. It&#8217;s another red one; nice, but not what I was expecting. The dealer&#8217;s notes indicated that it would likely have flowers in the magenta-purple range, but while it does have a bluish cast in some light (but not in sunlight or with the on-camera flash), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/red-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red, again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,701,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-orchids","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-JQC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176242"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176747,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176242\/revisions\/176747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}