{"id":479,"date":"2011-01-13T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=479"},"modified":"2011-01-18T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:58:48","slug":"a-hairy-urban-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"A hairy urban bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/urban-bee-2011-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-478\" title=\"An urban bee out in Jan 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/urban-bee-2011-004-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"An urban bee out in Jan 2011\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/urban-bee-2011-004-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/urban-bee-2011-004-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lovely close-up photo of one of our winter honeybees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely close-up photo of one of our winter honeybees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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