{"id":12365,"date":"2016-10-09T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2016-10-09T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:44:04","slug":"sity-bumblebees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=12365","title":{"rendered":"SITY: Bumblebees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=12343\">Speaking of pollinators<\/a>, let us not forget the bumblebees. In order to get close enough to take pictures of the tiny green bee the other day, I was forced to put my arm among the stems of a plant. There was a bumblebee on the same plant, and I was worried that he might attack, but he paid me no mind. He just buzzed so close to my arm that I felt the air move against my skin.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy watching the bumblebees. I admire their industry. I am amazed by their single-mindedness. I think they&#8217;re awfully cute (and, as I&#8217;ve mentioned before, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=8345\">they remind me of my cat, Mojo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here are my two favorite bumblebee pictures from late summer\/early fall 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12366\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bumble-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-1.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12367\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bumble-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bumble-2.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of pollinators, let us not forget the bumblebees. In order to get close enough to take pictures of the tiny green bee the other day, I was forced to put my arm among the stems of a plant. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=12365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[461,124,534,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12377,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}