{"id":407,"date":"2015-03-06T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2015-03-06T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:11:32","slug":"the-snow-squeaks-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"The Snow Squeaks All Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 5 degrees this morning when heading into the woods to tap, colder then yesterday. \u00a0 It may have warmed to about 10 or 12, but all day long the snow squeaked under foot when walking on it. \u00a0 We covered our face with a bandanna to prevent frost bite. \u00a0As cold as it was, you still sweat. \u00a0A lot. \u00a0We may have gotten a bit dehydrated during the day because of all the sweating. \u00a0We did not have water with us because it would have froze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dressed_for_Tapping_2015-03-05.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dressed for Tapping\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dressed for tapping on a cold day of 5 degrees<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Much less snow in the woods this year compared to last year. \u00a0That makes it easier to walk. \u00a0We did get gaiters for our shoes to stop snow from spilling over the tops where it melts and causes wet, cold feet. \u00a0Our fingers and toes stayed toasty all day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic weather changes forecast. \u00a0By Tuesday and Wednesday (March 10 &amp; 11) we reach into the 40s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We did get 150 taps out. \u00a0With the 50 from yesterday we now have 200 taps out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 5 degrees this morning when heading into the woods to tap, colder then yesterday. \u00a0 It may have warmed to about 10 or 12, but all day long the snow squeaked under foot when walking on it. \u00a0 We covered our face with a bandanna to prevent frost bite. \u00a0As cold as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2015-season-98"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}