{"id":100023,"date":"2014-07-29T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=100023"},"modified":"2014-07-29T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:33:54","slug":"its-about-bee-ing-the-best-the-men-and-women-who-have-got-ontario-abuzz-in-annual-best-bee-beard-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=100023","title":{"rendered":"It’s about BEE-ing the best: The men and women who have got Ontario abuzz in annual Best Bee Beard competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not exactly a competition for the faint-hearted, but let’s hope there was no sting in the tale for any of these brave bee beard growers.<\/p>\n

The remarkably daring men and women have got Ontario all abuzz after taking part in the tenth annual Clovermead Bee Beard Competition.<\/p>\n

The contest sees four teams of competitors entice swarms of bees to the head and torso of a ‘beard grower’ before two winners are chosen by the audience and the official judges.<\/p>\n

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Beebearding is thought to date back to the 1700s when an English beekeeper discovered he could create a beard of bees by tying the queen to a thread around his neck and would parade through the streets wearing the unusual costume.<\/p>\n

At the Clovermead competition however, once in place, the beards are weighed before each wearer goes on to strut their stuff and perform a little dance in front of the watching crowds.<\/p>\n

The Bee Beard Champion is then chosen by judges, while the audience is also able to pick their Crowd Favourite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not exactly a competition for the faint-hearted, but let’s hope there was no sting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,143],"tags":[12936,5817],"class_list":["post-100023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-usa","tag-bee-ing-the-best","tag-ontario","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}