{"id":76,"date":"2017-06-07T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2019-03-09T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:19:35","slug":"our-hive-arrived-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Our hive arrived today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h2>\nDay 1 Beginning as beginners<\/h2>\n<h3>\n<br \/><\/h3>\n<h3>\nThe hive came today, we bought a fully assembled one as we don&#8217;t have the <strike>skills<\/strike>&nbsp;to build it ourselves. It&#8217;s in red cedar and our only regret is the bright green queen excluder as it doesn&#8217;t quite match the wood. I don&#8217;t remember seeing any other bright green bee excluders at the apiary on all the other hives but it was around a fiver compared to the full \u00a314 for a steel one. We are not going to treat it with anything, until at least we get to the apiary and find out that we really should have done.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-OaNU--5ZBCY\/WThwhB8cZPI\/AAAAAAAATfE\/vJnTfNf7MSM1OoLU4o3prChRRD2zkl_VQCKgB\/s1600\/IMG_0784.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0784.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h3>\n<br \/><\/h3>\n<h3>\nWe set the whole thing up and it looks impressive and ready to go.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dE9pGKKgSKk\/WThwhJN-kVI\/AAAAAAAATfE\/Mqni5ZAfrK8GGIscex8ALrB2-GKNSA69ACKgB\/s1600\/IMG_0783.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0783.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h3>\n<\/h3>\n<h3>\nAt least it might be if there was a chance of bees in the near future. The price of a NUC had me over on the floor so we are hoping for a swarm but the wet and colder weather is making this unlikely just at the moment.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3>\n<br \/><\/h3>\n<h3>\n<br \/><\/h3>\n<h3>\n<br \/><\/h3>\n<h3>\nLast night I met a friend in the pub, she was late and when she arrived she told it was because she was having a swarm of honey bees removed from her house by a swarm collector. Ironic. I could have had those, they could have waited in the car whilst we had a quick drink.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 Beginning as beginners The hive came today, we bought a fully assembled one as we don&#8217;t have the skills&nbsp;to build it ourselves. It&#8217;s in red cedar and our only regret is the bright green queen excluder as it doesn&#8217;t quite match the wood.&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/?p=76\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMSCr-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roaringbees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}