{"id":303,"date":"2012-03-16T01:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2012-03-16T01:15:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:15:57","slug":"when-early-march-seems-middle-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"When Early March Seems Middle May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next few days we get temperatures in the high 60s with lows in the 50s.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not sappin&#8217; weather.\u00a0 It seems wrong for this time in March.\u00a0 The average temperatures for March 15 are high of 38 and low of 24.\u00a0\u00a0 Our plan is to collect any sap that looks good tomorrow then take down the buckets.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over the weekend pull the taps and gather up the buckets and covers for storage.<\/p>\n<p>We bottled 31 quarts today.\u00a0\u00a0 Sill have a half milk can of syrup.\u00a0 Plus what&#8217;s in the evaporator.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Into the woods by 10:30 AM and finished by 4:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c When Early March Seems Middle May\u201d is the title of poem we found in a book titled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Riley Farm-Rhymes <\/span>by James Whitcom Riley published in 1905.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Its a fitting description for what is happening now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next few days we get temperatures in the high 60s with lows in the 50s.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not sappin&#8217; weather.\u00a0 It seems wrong for this time in March.\u00a0 The average temperatures for March 15 are high of 38 and low of 24.\u00a0\u00a0 Our plan is to collect any sap that looks good tomorrow then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-season-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}