{"id":6032,"date":"2006-08-01T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/08\/when-a-book-would-be-better-than-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T12:58:34","slug":"when-a-book-would-be-better-than-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/08\/01\/when-a-book-would-be-better-than-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"When a book would be better than the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a lovely bumblebee in the garden. I like these fuzzy-bottomed creatures, but I&#8217;ve never seen one quite like this one &#8211; a slightly tapered bum (abdomen, I think) with three distinct amber-coloured stripes around the tip. The problem I have is that I&#8217;d like to know what type of bumblebee it is and whether I&#8217;ve spotted something rare or unusual. It&#8217;s this sort of thing that shows the limitations of the internet. If I had a book of insects, I could open the page of bees and compare all the different sorts until I spotted an illustration that best represented the creature I saw. However, the net relies on me\u00a0making a search\u00a0using the name of the creature I am seeking (looking for &quot;bumblebees&quot; is too vague). Wikipedia only offers a detailed description of the most common species.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions? I&#8217;ve had a similar problem when I&#8217;ve spotted an unusual butterfly or moth. Birds are\u00a0another group of creatures where I go straight to the bookshelf first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a lovely bumblebee in the garden. I like these fuzzy-bottomed creatures, but I&#8217;ve never seen one quite like this one &#8211; a slightly tapered bum (abdomen, I think) with three distinct amber-coloured stripes around the tip. The problem I have is that I&#8217;d like to know what type of bumblebee it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-radio","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}