{"id":97,"date":"2026-10-17T02:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/i-went-to-an-orchid-show-and-barely-survived\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T02:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:53:53","slug":"i-went-to-an-orchid-show-and-barely-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/i-went-to-an-orchid-show-and-barely-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the UN, forget the Olympics, the real seat of global tension is the Bomaderry Townhall full of orchid people explaining why their flower deserved the ribbon more than yours. These are not hobbyists, these are gladiators with watering cans, and every single one of them could narrate a David Attenborough special about a single petal for forty-five minutes. I walked in expecting flowers and walked out convinced orchids are one bad judging decision away from a full-scale civil war. Ten out of ten, extremely Australian experience!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/relay-3129282b-49f3-492f-b8ae-3fd3e8181817.jpg\" alt=\"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/relay-71bf579a-ff4f-436f-be24-6e1fe9839d54.jpg\" alt=\"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/relay-8c64fd3f-b4a8-4bda-9d09-35bb7fb0deb7.jpg\" alt=\"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/relay-3889bcc7-5732-4cf0-b080-e533d12a96bf.jpg\" alt=\"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/relay-cc20a7d0-42ff-4f7b-b7d0-982256fc31c6.jpg\" alt=\"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/relay-5abd1444-21da-44ae-b07e-1cf771b2b2eb.jpg\" alt=\"I Went to an Orchid Show and Barely Survived\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the UN, forget the Olympics, the real seat of global tension is the Bomaderry Townhall full of orchid people explaining why their flower deserved the ribbon more than yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}