{"id":3891,"date":"2026-04-04T23:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:13:54","slug":"sunday-verses-bees-bonnet-4-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Bee’s Bonnet’ (4\/5\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

for Bee Whisenant
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By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Death and resurrection are funny words \/ to use when referring to honey bees \u2014 \/ how the hive declines in late autumn, \/ then comes back to life in early spring.<\/p>\n

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IN DAYS PAST, Easter bonnets were a big deal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Workers live only six weeks in summer; \/ drones, two months if they don’t mate; \/ the solitary queen, two to five years, \/ because she’s the most important bee.<\/p>\n

Or is she? Sure, she lays all the eggs, \/ but she had to tango with several guys \/ on her mating flight high up in the skies \/ in order to be the egg machine she is.<\/p>\n

And the thousands of poor worker girls? \/ They do everything to keep the hive \/ clean and fed and safe and humming; \/ they literally work themselves to death.<\/p>\n

So, the beehive stays alive all year; \/ it dies and resurrects itself over and over \/ in the expendable lives of its workers, \/ who \u2014 no doubt \u2014 are what the buzz is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

for Bee Whisenant By RAHN ADAMS Death and resurrection are funny words \/ to use when referring to honey bees \u2014 \/ how the hive declines in late autumn, \/ then comes back to life in early spring. Workers live only six weeks in summer; \/ drones, two months if they don’t mate; \/ the … Continue reading SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Bee’s Bonnet’ (4\/5\/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-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}