{"id":340,"date":"2013-03-25T01:43:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2013-03-25T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:43:24","slug":"boiled-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Boiled Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 25 overnight.\u00a0 Up to 34 today.\u00a0 Cloudy and windy.\u00a0 But the sun did make an appearance late in the day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The wind was actually causing the snow to drift.\u00a0 The wind came out of the north across the 80 acres of open field and picked up the snow and blew it.\u00a0 On the 24th of March.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Boiled today.\u00a0 Into the woods by 8:00 AM.\u00a0 Cleaned the front syrup pan.\u00a0\u00a0 It was frozen after a week of no use.\u00a0\u00a0 Put it on the gas burner to thaw out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By 9:00 AM the fire was going.\u00a0 The sap from yesterday tested a 4.3 brix.\u00a0 That is very sweet.\u00a0 Of course some of the sweetness results from the ice we dumped out.\u00a0 Took four batches of syrup off the evaporator.\u00a0 Every two hours again.\u00a0\u00a0 By 5:30 PM we were back in the house.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast still calls for a warm up starting Tuesday.\u00a0 We should get 40s and 20s which is what we have been waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 25 overnight.\u00a0 Up to 34 today.\u00a0 Cloudy and windy.\u00a0 But the sun did make an appearance late in the day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The wind was actually causing the snow to drift.\u00a0 The wind came out of the north across the 80 acres of open field and picked up the snow and blew it.\u00a0 On the 24th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-season96"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}