{"id":31596,"date":"2023-10-09T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=31596"},"modified":"2023-10-09T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:59:23","slug":"why-bumble-bees-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2023\/10\/09\/why-bumble-bees-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bumble Bees Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nDo you prefer how the dragonfly flies<br \/>\nOr do you prefer how the crow flies<br \/>\nAsking how&#8217;s<br \/>\nAsking why&#8217;s<br \/>\nStraight as an arrow<br \/>\nStraits through the narrow<br \/>\nDire<br \/>\nOn fire<br \/>\nFlaming<br \/>\nAiming<br \/>\nFor the light<\/p>\n<p>Why do bumble bees fly?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Open-Wide\/DR0000_0646-Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly.mp3\"> Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/hyper-terrestrial\/Quite-on-the-Set\/DR0000_0647-Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly-Instrumental.mp3\"> Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly-Instrumental.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/hyper-terrestrial\/Quite-on-the-Set\/midi\/Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly.MID\">Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly.MID<\/a> (Casio WK-3500 with DSP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many paths to scientific discovery. How do you imagine yourself flying?<br \/>\nIn the song &#8220;Fly Away,&#8221; Lenny Kravitz sings,<br \/>\n&#8220;I wish that I could fly<br \/>\nInto the sky<br \/>\nSo very high<br \/>\nJust like a dragonfly&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the crow flies&#8221; is an idiom for the most direct path between two points. This meaning is attested from the early 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>Bumble bees&#8217; wings, &#8220;rather than being rigid aerofoils, consist instead of an extremely elastic and supple protein known as resilin. This can be stretched to three times its length without tearing, allowing bumblebees to move a relatively large mass of air using wings with a small surface area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chords: F# \/ C# D# F# \/ A# G# F#; 120 Beats Per Minute<br \/>\nInstrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/go-net-zero.html\">What you can do today. How to save the planet.<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Climate-Change-End-of-Times.html\">Climate Change: The End of Times<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS Do you prefer how the dragonfly flies Or do you prefer how the crow flies Asking how&#8217;s Asking why&#8217;s Straight as an arrow Straits through the narrow Dire On fire Flaming Aiming For the light Why do bumble bees fly? Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly.mp3 Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly-Instrumental.mp3 Why-Bumble-Bees-Fly.MID (Casio WK-3500 with DSP) There are many paths to scientific discovery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,9,14,3810],"tags":[528,3934,3933],"class_list":["post-31596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chords","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-speciman","tag-midi","tag-open-wide","tag-quite-on-the-set"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31600,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31596\/revisions\/31600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}