{"id":197,"date":"2010-03-06T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:45:06","slug":"first-collecting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"First Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We collected 300 gallons of sap today.\u00a0 It was cold again last night: down to 17.\u00a0 That freezes everything hard.\u00a0 The buckets had ice in them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By 10:30 AM\u00a0 it was above freezing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We knew we would collect but had to wait for the sun&#8217;s rays to do their magic to\u00a0 melt a lot of the ice in the buckets.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting to collect we washed out the collecting tank, storage tanks and evaporator.\u00a0 That meant a water run with the tractor and milk cans.\u00a0 After washing we had to connect the pipes from the storage tank to the evaporator. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We also enlarged the opening on the collecting tank by cutting off a 1 \u00bc\u201d lip on the top.\u00a0 That added 2 \u00bd \u201c to the diameter making it much easier to dump the collecting pails in the tank.<\/p>\n<p>By 3:00 PM we were ready to collect and set out.\u00a0 By 5:00 PM we were done and had 300 gallons of sap.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will fire up the evaporator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We collected 300 gallons of sap today.\u00a0 It was cold again last night: down to 17.\u00a0 That freezes everything hard.\u00a0 The buckets had ice in them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By 10:30 AM\u00a0 it was above freezing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We knew we would collect but had to wait for the sun&#8217;s rays to do their magic to\u00a0 melt a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-season-93"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}