{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-03T20:52:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-01-03T20:52:54","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T04:52:54","slug":"sue-monk-kidd-excertped-from-the-secret-life-of-bees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Sue Monk Kidd, excerpted from The Secret Life of Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called &#8220;bee yard etiquette.\u201d She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don&#8217;t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don&#8217;t be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don&#8217;t swat. Don&#8217;t even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee&#8217;s temper. Act like you know what you&#8217;re doing, even if you don&#8217;t. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called &#8220;bee yard etiquette.\u201d She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don&#8217;t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}