{"id":3467,"date":"2026-02-05T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:13:19","slug":"sunday-verses-two-bee-hives-2-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3467","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Two Bee Hives&#8217; (2\/8\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, \/ the bees were still buzzing \/ in one of our hives \/ like a well-built <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belvedere_(structure)\">Belvedere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3468\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3468\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart-768x1063.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart-1109x1536.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/beehiveart.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;TWO BEE HIVES,&#8217; a new pastel drawing by Timberley Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On my knees, I pressed \/ my ear to the box \/ and heard the happy thrum \/ of a thousand little lives,<\/p>\n<p>Clustered against the cold, \/ generating heat \/ to protect that one life \/ at the center of their being.<\/p>\n<p>Why the other hive died \/ we probably won&#8217;t know. \/ Too much stress \/ and too spread out, we guess.<\/p>\n<p>We should have robbed it \u2014 \/ taken all of the gold \/ to make them work \/ harder for their precious honey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS As of this morning, \/ the bees were still buzzing \/ in one of our hives \/ like a well-built Belvedere. On my knees, I pressed \/ my ear to the box \/ and heard the happy thrum \/ of a thousand little lives, Clustered against the cold, \/ generating heat \/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Two Bee Hives&#8217; (2\/8\/2026)<\/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-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}