{"id":1146,"date":"2010-10-16T04:03:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2010-10-16T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T14:05:25","slug":"mustard-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Mustard Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8A random errand takes me<br \/>\npast a<br \/>\nrogue<br \/>\nfield<br \/>\nalight in Mustard Flowers.<\/p>\n<p>This boon of Flowers<br \/>\nis rare October fuel,<br \/>\na wonderland of pollen.<br \/>\nI hope<br \/>\nthe bees have found this flood of yellow<br \/>\ntoo.<\/p>\n<p>Into the blossoms I go<br \/>\nlistening across the wind<br \/>\nfor the telltale hum.<br \/>\nThere.<br \/>\nI hear them.<br \/>\nMy tribe.<\/p>\n<p>A less certain beeline,<br \/>\nhas brought me this gift;<br \/>\nto find<br \/>\nmy sisters in the bliss of an equal joy.<\/p>\n<p>Returning home,<br \/>\nI sit by the hives,<br \/>\nobserve the traffic,<br \/>\nand watch each bee depart,<br \/>\nsetting a course<br \/>\nthrough notched hills.<br \/>\nTheir trajectories tells me they head for the Mustard.<br \/>\nMy heart sings as each bee lifts off<br \/>\nin confident departure.<\/p>\n<p>My teachers.<\/p>\n<p>They live<br \/>\nnot for self or even queen but for<br \/>\nthis sure flight,<br \/>\nthis buzzing oneness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2010\/10\/img-2435.jpg\" height=\"518\" width=\"388\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_2435.JPG\" title=\"IMG_2435.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8A random errand takes me past a rogue field alight in Mustard Flowers. This boon of Flowers is rare October fuel, a wonderland of pollen. I hope the bees have found this flood of yellow too. Into the blossoms I go listening across the wind for the telltale hum. There. I hear them. My tribe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=1146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mustard Flowers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}