{"id":438,"date":"2012-11-08T11:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madebytheforge.wordpress.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-04-19T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:17:43","slug":"beeswax-from-the-local-bee-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/beeswax-from-the-local-bee-keeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeswax from the local bee keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madebytheforge.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/beeswax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-439\" title=\"SONY DSC\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/madebytheforge.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/beeswax.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of our ironwork is finished in the traditional way. \u00a0While the metal is still hot we seal it with a natural beeswax. This gives the iron a beautiful finish. We sourced this particular beeswax from near Needham Market about 4 miles from home. The bee keeper has over 15 hives and this must have taken many bees many hours. It is estimated that bees collectively fly 150,000 miles roughly 6 times around the earth to yield one pound of beeswax. This block is over 3 lbs which would mean 450,000 bee miles. Busy bees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our ironwork is finished in the traditional way. \u00a0While the metal is still hot we seal it with a natural beeswax. This gives the iron a beautiful finish. We sourced this particular beeswax from near Needham Market about 4 miles from home. The bee keeper has over 15 hives and this must have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[71,65],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-forge","category-lifestyle","tag-beeswax","tag-curtain-pole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.live\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}