{"id":200,"date":"2010-03-09T03:57:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2010-03-09T03:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T03:57:40","slug":"sunny-days-freezing-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Days, Freezing Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny days and freezing nights are supposed to give sap flows.\u00a0 We are getting some sap but not as much as hoped given the weather pattern.\u00a0 Something else besides just sunny day and freezing night must be needed for sap flows.\u00a0 It was not as cold last night.\u00a0 Only into the low 20s.\u00a0 And up to about 50 during the day.\u00a0 Again it was sunny.\u00a0 The sap moved, but not enough to collect.\u00a0 There was a quart to two quarts in most pails.\u00a0 We plan to collect tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>We did boil today.\u00a0 And bottled again.\u00a0 We started boiling at 7:30 AM with the goal of emptying the storage tanks.\u00a0 That meant pushing through 300 gallons of sap.\u00a0 By 11:30 AM we took off the first batch of syrup.\u00a0\u00a0 By 3:30 PM the second batch was ready.\u00a0 We finished and bottle both batches together which gave us 26 quarts and 1 pint.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t expect any more syrup but by 8:00 PM another batch was ready.\u00a0 We took it off the evaporator but did not finish and bottle it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>By 10: 00 PM we were back in the house.\u00a0 So it was a 14 \u00bd hour day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny days and freezing nights are supposed to give sap flows.\u00a0 We are getting some sap but not as much as hoped given the weather pattern.\u00a0 Something else besides just sunny day and freezing night must be needed for sap flows.\u00a0 It was not as cold last night.\u00a0 Only into the low 20s.\u00a0 And up [&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-200","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\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}