{"id":5053,"date":"2009-06-29T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2009-06-29T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:46:53","slug":"fight_the_power_that_bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/fight_the_power_that_bee.html","title":{"rendered":"Fight The Power That Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many salient details in such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06292009\/news\/regionalnews\/the_upper_bees_side_176632.htm\">a short story<\/a> &#8212; which one do you focus on? Is it A) That honeybees are back? B) That they&#8217;re taking over the Upper East Side? C) That the police department has a beekeeper? or D) That the story comes out suspiciously close to a bill being floated by the Council to legalize beekeeping? Mind reels:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some 8,000 to 10,000 honeybees had surreptitiously moved into the neighborhood sometime in the past month and managed to build a giant hive in a tree between 80th and 81st streets without anyone noticing. <\/p>\n<p>The queen decided to bust out at around 4 p.m., and flew south for a half-block before returning home. <\/p>\n<p>She was followed dutifully on her outing by all of her subjects. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a three foot column of bees,&#8221; said Doug Becker, 40. <\/p>\n<p>Police Officer Anthony Planakis, the NYPD&#8217;s resident beekeeper for 30 years, said it was &#8220;one of the biggest swarms I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He took all the bees into custody as a crowd of onlookers applauded, and said he&#8217;d bring them &#8220;to a farm in Connecticut to pollinate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This bees got loose only days after a swarm of amateur beekeepers buzzed around City Hall in support of a bill to legalize their hobby.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many salient details in such a short story &#8212; which one do you focus on? Is it A) That honeybees are back? B) That they&#8217;re taking over the Upper East Side? C) That the police department has a beekeeper? or D) That the story comes out suspiciously close to a bill being floated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,68,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird","category-follow_the_money","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}