{"id":948,"date":"2020-02-29T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:51:45","slug":"good-weather-started-tapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Good Weather; Started Tapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Its been cold the past four days.  Highs in the 20s.  Lows in single digits.  It was 9 this morning.  But the weather pattern is changing.  Sunny today.  Warmed to abut 30.   The next week is forecast for 40s during the day and 20s at night.  That&#8217;s sap weather.  We started tapping today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got organized.  Tractor took some time to warm up after sitting in the cold.  The tapper would&#8217;t start.  The spark plug was full of carbon.  After cleaning the spark plug the tapper started on one pull.  Into the woods by 8:30.  Cold but sunny.  Two person crew to start with.  After an hour a third joined.  Around 12:30 three more.  That makes tapping much quicker.    We got 418 out today.  We&#8217;ll finish the remaining 82 tomorrow for 500 taps.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Noon it warmed enough that some taps started dripping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the farmhouse by 3:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been cold the past four days. Highs in the 20s. Lows in single digits. It was 9 this morning. But the weather pattern is changing. Sunny today. Warmed to abut 30. The next week is forecast for 40s during the day and 20s at night. That&#8217;s sap weather. We started tapping today. Got organized. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-season-103"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}