{"id":79523,"date":"2014-04-11T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=79523"},"modified":"2014-04-11T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:43:15","slug":"unstung-hero-chinese-bee-bearder-covers-himself-in-a-suit-made-of-460000-insects-as-a-stunt-to-promote-his-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=79523","title":{"rendered":"Unstung hero: Chinese &#8216;bee-bearder&#8217; covers himself in a suit made of 460,000 insects as a stunt to promote his honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beekeeper-china.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79517\" alt=\"beekeeper-china\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beekeeper-china.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beekeeper-china.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beekeeper-china-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beekeeper-china-458x300.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body with more than 460,000 bees for a publicity stunt aimed at selling more of his honey, using a technique known as &#8216;bee bearding&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She Ping, a 34-year-old honey merchant from the southwestern Chinese metropolis of Chongqing, covered himself in bees that collectively weighed more than 100 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To be honest I felt very nervous, but I do it to promote my honey,&#8217; She said, adding: &#8216;I&#8217;m used to dealing with bees&#8230; and started these activities when I was about 22.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It hurt but I didn&#8217;t dare to move,&#8217; he said, adding that he was stung more than 20 times during the 40-minute stunt.<\/p>\n<p>China is one of the world&#8217;s major producers of honey, though its exports have been banned in several countries due to fears of counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body with more than 460,000 bees for a publicity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79523","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=79523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}