{"id":1195,"date":"2008-06-24T20:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/bee-party\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:06:20","slug":"bee-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/bee-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/b-party.jpg' title='b-party.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/b-party.jpg' width='200' alt='b-party.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>When I got up this morning and let Bear out, I noticed more of the cactus flowers had opened overnight. I grabbed Verna&#8217;s camera and went out to get a couple of close ups, since these flowers fade fairly fast in the summer sun. I was surprised to see that there were so many bees up at six AM &#8211; buzzing and pollinating and gathering nectar &#8211; a regular Bee Party! <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get in for a real tight shot because of the spikes on the cactus stalk next door, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Click the image for the close-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got up this morning and let Bear out, I noticed more of the cactus flowers had opened overnight. I grabbed Verna&#8217;s camera and went&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}