{"id":736,"date":"2006-11-14T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=736"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:19:14","slug":"just-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/just-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Just bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionmagazine.org\/index.php\/articles\/article\/175\/\">Okay, here&#8217;s something to warm the ol&#8217; cockles<\/a>: Kirk Webster, a smalltime beekeeper, has used old-fashioned breeding techniques to develop bees resistant to varroa mite.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re old enough and pay attention to this sort of thing, you may have noticed you see fewer wild honey bees now than when you were a kid. This mite is why: if it infects a hive, the hive is usually doomed.<\/p>\n<p>Most commercial beekeepers control the mite with pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>Not Kirk. Bless him.<\/p>\n<p>(This, btw, is why I try to support small farmers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s something to warm the ol&#8217; cockles: Kirk Webster, a smalltime beekeeper, has used old-fashioned breeding techniques to develop bees resistant to varroa mite. If you&#8217;re old enough and pay attention to this sort of thing, you may have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/just-bee\/\">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":[15],"tags":[1567,1568,1569,1566,1570],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-beekeeper","tag-bees","tag-honeybees","tag-kirk-webster","tag-varroa-mite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/6178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}