{"id":2092,"date":"2022-10-01T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2022-10-01T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T08:23:12","slug":"keeping-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/keeping-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to to try to keep some bees with a swarm of black Cornish bees given to me last March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being me I wanted to do things differently and am trying to work to have healthy bees more than honey, so I instinctively dislike the idea of feeding them sugar and stealing as much honey as I possibly can. Especially with winter on the way and a very wet autumn on the cards. But that doesn&#8217;t decrease the worry. It seems no matter what you do when you are called upon the look after a living being (or thousands of them), and even if you don&#8217;t have a full understanding of their live cycle and styles, you still fret over their welfare.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is the more difficult aspect of keeping bees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to to try to keep some bees with a swarm of black Cornish bees given to me last March. &nbsp; Being me I wanted to do things differently and am trying to work to have healthy bees more than honey, so I instinctively dislike the idea of feeding them sugar and stealing as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,174],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-apiary","tag-cornwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}