{"id":7,"date":"2015-02-20T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T20:02:00","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson Orchid Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growing of orchids as a hobby.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Meeting Information \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The Tucson Orchid Society regularly meets on the third Wednesday in January through October. Members are encouraged to bring orchids in bloom for <strong>show and tell<\/strong>. In November, the Society holds a fundraising <strong>auction<\/strong> of plants donated for that purpose. In December, we have a wonderful, relaxing <strong>potluck<\/strong> combined with a short business meeting and election of officers.\u00a0 We also have a public orchid show and sale in early spring, usually the first weekend of March.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly meetings are held at the Gem &amp; Mineral Society Building (side entrance), 3727 E. Blacklidge Dr., Tucson, AZ 85716 at 7:00 PM.\u00a0 From the intersection of East Ft. Lowell and North Dodge, go two blocks south on Dodge, turn left on Blacklidge. The building is on the north side of the street.<\/p>\n<p>Sample newsletter for members:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"April 2017 Newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/NewsletterApr2017.pdf\">April 2017 Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Facebook: Tucson Orchid Society Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/281078173913417\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/281078173913417<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson Orchid Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growing of orchids as a hobby. General Meeting Information &nbsp;&nbsp;The Tucson Orchid Society regularly meets on the third Wednesday in January through October. Members are encouraged to bring orchids in bloom for show and tell. In November, the Society holds a fundraising auction of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/?page_id=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchidsocietytucson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}