{"id":3226,"date":"2015-12-21T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2015-12-21T21:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:53:24","slug":"christmas-eve-with-the-bees-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve with the Bees  2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garrison Keillor&#8217;s daily Writer&#8217;s Almanac puts a poem in my in box every day.\u00a0 This was perfect for the Solstice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bee Carol<\/strong><br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.org\/poem_author\/carol-ann-duffy\/?elq=6d920d4334dd4e0992d871f4c4f01487&amp;elqCampaignId=16698&amp;elqaid=19422&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqTrackId=5b9f20b4092a4f6798617119002cf98f\">Carol Ann Duffy <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.org\/episodes\/20151220\/?elq=6d920d4334dd4e0992d871f4c4f01487&amp;elqCampaignId=16698&amp;elqaid=19422&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqTrackId=d8d84e1fbbaf4d0bbf2940aaa8b0ab1d\">Listen Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silently on Christmas Eve,<br \/>\nthe turn of midnight\u2019s key;<br \/>\nall the garden locked in ice \u2014<br \/>\na silver frieze \u2014<br \/>\nexcept the winter cluster of the bees.<\/p>\n<p>Flightless now and shivering,<br \/>\naround their Queen they cling;<br \/>\nevery bee a gift of heat;<br \/>\nshe will not freeze<br \/>\nwithin the winter cluster of the bees.<\/p>\n<p>Bring me for my Christmas gift<br \/>\na single golden jar;<br \/>\nlet me taste the sweetness there,<br \/>\nbut honey leave<br \/>\nto feed the winter cluster of the bees.<\/p>\n<p>Come with me on Christmas Eve<br \/>\nto see the silent hive \u2014<br \/>\ntrembling stars cloistered above \u2014<br \/>\nand then believe,<br \/>\nbless the winter cluster of the bees.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Bee Carol&#8221; by Carol Ann Duffy from <em>The Bees<\/em>. \u00a9 Faber &amp; Faber, Inc., 2011. Reprinted with permission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrison Keillor&#8217;s daily Writer&#8217;s Almanac puts a poem in my in box every day.\u00a0 This was perfect for the Solstice. The Bee Carol by Carol Ann Duffy Listen Online Silently on Christmas Eve, the turn of midnight\u2019s key; all the garden locked in ice \u2014 a silver frieze \u2014 except the winter cluster of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}