{"id":4448,"date":"2020-09-14T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:10:27","slug":"bees-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4448","title":{"rendered":"Bees and Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In bad times, it is important to try to focus on what is good and true and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Early today, I went out to exercise and enjoy the last of these summer mornings. I Stretching out, I noticed bumblebees on some nearby flowers. There was one bumble per flower. They weren&#8217;t moving. I thought they were dead. A poignant reminder summer was coming to an end, Fall and Winter soon to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4453\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200914_072345-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200914_072345-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200914_072345-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200914_072345-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200914_072345-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200914_072345-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then I realized they were sleeping. There was one bumble per flower. The must have been doing their thing when the sun went down and temperature dropped, they just froze in place.<\/p>\n<p>I leaned over and gently breathed on them and they started coming to life.<\/p>\n<p>How cool was that?<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2020 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bad times, it is important to try to focus on what is good and true and beautiful. Early today, I went out to exercise and enjoy the last of these summer mornings. I Stretching out, I noticed bumblebees on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4448\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}