{"id":895,"date":"2012-03-10T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2012-03-10T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T12:49:58","slug":"the-duck-and-the-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"The Duck and the Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Once upon a time there was a duck<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the duck thought it was in luck<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When it saw a tiny little bee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buzzing in a nearby tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the duck saw a chance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To show that it could advance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Into higher planes above the lake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wherefrom it had been born a drake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">However, the bees in the tree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Had other ideas, you see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The bees saw the duck<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As a great chance to suck\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Suck what? I hear you say!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ah, well, the bees could not pay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the new nest they were creating<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So the duck was definitely worth bating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The tiny bees flew out of the tree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And began to sting the duck, you see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So the duck quacked and quacked<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And far away from the lake it flapped!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So the bees then drank from the lake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And stung any beast that came near to drink<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And they quenched their thirst when it was sunny<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So they could then to create lots and lots of honey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The morale of this tiny fable that you all can take,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is that however much a duck wants to rise up from the lake,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The little bees from the tree have other ideas that\u2019ll mean, you see,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The duck can never elevate itself into the trees like a bee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time there was a duck And the duck thought it was in luck When it saw a tiny little bee Buzzing in a nearby tree. &#8211; For the duck saw a chance To show that it could advance Into higher planes above the lake Wherefrom it had been born a drake. &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Duck and the Bee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,62,66,83,65],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-er","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1259,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1259","url_meta":{"origin":895,"position":0},"title":"The Ultimate Purpose of a Bee","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"30\/05\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Sunday, I took my friend Sam to visit my bees. \u00a0He has been trying to keep bees for three years - but to no avail. \u00a0The last swarm that I gave him on his birthday two years died off the first winter he had them. 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