{"id":7038,"date":"2016-07-21T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2016-07-21T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:04:48","slug":"memorial-hall-abuzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/07\/21\/memorial-hall-abuzz\/","title":{"rendered":"New residents set Memorial Hall abuzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/Bees-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bees-2\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/>It has been decades since the last students moved out of Memorial Hall; the dormitory was converted to office space in the late 1960s. However, a new group of inhabitants moved in this spring when The Beez Kneez organization installed beehives on the building\u2019s rooftop as part of an urban apiary partnership program. Augsburg joined the program to further the College\u2019s commitment to environmental stewardship and to creating green spaces within the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Recently, honey bee populations have been decreasing due to parasites and the misuse of pesticides. The on-campus hives will help rebuild the local population and pollinate Augsburg\u2019s plant life. Those worried about getting stung can rest easy\u2014honey bees are not aggressive and will not sting unless threatened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been decades since the last students moved out of Memorial Hall; the dormitory was converted to office space in the late 1960s. However, a new group of inhabitants moved in this spring when The Beez Kneez organization installed beehives on the building\u2019s rooftop as part of an urban apiary partnership program. Augsburg joined <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":7215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-summer-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"Hives installed to bolster honey bee population ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7218,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}