{"id":2440,"date":"2013-07-26T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:18:01","slug":"bee-apocalyze-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/bee-apocalyze-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee apocalypse now…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….we’ve only been vaguely aware of the apparently devastating destruction of America’s bee population.\u00a0 But reading about it this morning I was reminded again of how little we know….of how little the so-called “experts” know….about the physical world around us.<\/p>\n

All I know, is we’re a part of something huge and grand and beautiful and we should be very careful tinkering with “parts”.\u00a0 That seems to be the problem with the slaughter of the bees.\u00a0 The government certifies some poison as safe without considering the dynamics of combining that product with seven other things that are also sprayed in the same area.<\/p>\n

The result seems to be that we’re flirting with catastrophe.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/qz.com\/107970\/scientists-discover-whats-killing-the-bees-and-its-worse-than-you-thought\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Barbara Matthews for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….we’ve only been vaguely aware of the apparently devastating destruction of America’s bee population.\u00a0 But reading about it this morning I was reminded again of how little we know….of how little the so-called “experts” know….about the physical world around us. All I know, is we’re a part of something huge and grand and beautiful and we should be very careful tinkering with “parts”.\u00a0 That seems to be the problem with the slaughter of the bees.\u00a0 The government certifies some poison as safe without considering the dynamics of combining that product with seven other things that are also sprayed in the same area. The result seems to be that we’re flirting with catastrophe. http:\/\/qz.com\/107970\/scientists-discover-whats-killing-the-bees-and-its-worse-than-you-thought\/ Thanks to Barbara Matthews for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}