{"id":12544,"date":"2017-06-27T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T23:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2017-07-01T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T16:47:43","slug":"bumble-bee-balm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12544","title":{"rendered":"Bumble Bee Balm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12546\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12546\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble Bee on Monarda Flower\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12546\" data-wp-pid=\"12546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170627_143237.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumble Bee on Monarda Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been able to get a fair number of flower pictures so far this year but the insects are not out in all their force yet. I&#8217;ve seen many around but haven&#8217;t been able to photograph many of them. This is my first bumble bee of the summer. It isn&#8217;t the best bumble bee picture I&#8217;ve ever taken but it makes me happy, with the brightness of the bee balm (<em>Monarda didyma<\/em>) contrasting with the black of the common eastern bumble bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>). I&#8217;m sure there will be many more to come. As for the title of this post, it&#8217;s the sort of thing that shows up in crossword puzzles fairly often, two words or phrases that overlap in the middle. Bumble Bee and Bee Balm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been able to get a fair number of flower pictures so far this year but the insects are not out in all their force yet. I&#8217;ve seen many around but haven&#8217;t been able to photograph many of them. This is my first bumble bee of the summer. It isn&#8217;t the best bumble bee picture &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[119,87,120,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12548,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}