{"id":1250,"date":"2010-04-09T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2010-04-08T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T02:48:51","slug":"sugaring-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Sugaring off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MapleSyrup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1251\" title=\"MapleSyrup\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MapleSyrup.jpg\" alt=\"MapleSyrup\" width=\"441\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MapleSyrup.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MapleSyrup-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spring is a time for field trips\u2014outdoors, if possible. This is from my sketchbook, when, as part of a homeschooling Farming block one year, we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.md.us\/publiclands\/western\/cunningham.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Cunningham Falls<\/a> in the Catoctin Mountains for their annual maple syrup festival. We were able to see the entire process from tree-tapping to boiling down sap to sampling the final product at a pancake breakfast. Wonderful park guides provided explanations of each step and answered our many questions. The syrup was a whole lot better than their Lake Wobegon pancakes, though. They definitely need a new recipe.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'ITC Galliard', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is a time for field trips\u2014outdoors, if possible. This is from my sketchbook, when, as part of a homeschooling Farming block one year, we visited Cunningham Falls in the Catoctin Mountains for their annual maple syrup festival. We were able to see the entire process from tree-tapping to boiling down sap to sampling the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1250\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14],"tags":[47,39,174,17,72,3],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-food","tag-homeschooling","tag-penink","tag-spring","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}