{"id":452,"date":"2016-03-03T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T15:11:31","slug":"a-day-of-rest-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five busy days to kick off the season we had a day of rest today.&nbsp; Low overnight 0.&nbsp; Today was cloudy with a few snow flurries.&nbsp; Cleared late afternoon.&nbsp; Temperature around 30.&nbsp; No melting however.&nbsp; Tomorrow is also cooler.&nbsp; But over the weekend the weather pattern changes again.&nbsp; We get warmer.&nbsp;&nbsp; Forecasts are for upper 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Got a new tank of propane gas.&nbsp; And a refill for our small propane torch.&nbsp; We use the torch to help thaw frozen pipes.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to get the R\/O setup this weekend so we are ready for the next sap runs.&nbsp; We got a heating element for the wash tank.&nbsp;&nbsp; This should reduce the time we spend waiting for the water to warm to 90 degrees through friction from circulating through the pumps.&nbsp; The heating element runs at 220 V and can heat the water in the wash tank in 20 minutes or so.&nbsp; The complete wash cycle should take around 30 minutes compared to 8 hours without the heating element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five busy days to kick off the season we had a day of rest today.&nbsp; Low overnight 0.&nbsp; Today was cloudy with a few snow flurries.&nbsp; Cleared late afternoon.&nbsp; Temperature around 30.&nbsp; No melting however.&nbsp; Tomorrow is also cooler.&nbsp; But over the weekend the weather pattern changes again.&nbsp; We get warmer.&nbsp;&nbsp; Forecasts are for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-season-99"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}