{"id":22128,"date":"2013-09-06T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22128"},"modified":"2013-09-06T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:32:10","slug":"candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22128","title":{"rendered":"Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Harvest) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Sprayed Enthuse on all the remaining crops this morning. \u00a0Next week I&#8217;ll take the soil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/md240a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22064\" alt=\"md240a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/md240a.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/md240a.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/md240a-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>samples from vegetable beds and orchard, get them sent off to International Ag Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Kate got out the double boiler and the meat thermometer. \u00a0After I cleaned rust off the candle molds, she threaded the wick through the two molds we&#8217;re using for a test run. \u00a0With the double boiler I melted the beeswax, got it to 160 and poured through a plastic funnel. \u00a0A bit messier than desirable, I imagine, but we got it done. \u00a0Now we&#8217;re waiting to see how the mold releases the candles after they cool off. \u00a0We used a chopstick to hold the wicks in place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Harvest) Moon Sprayed Enthuse on all the remaining crops this morning. \u00a0Next week I&#8217;ll take the soil samples from vegetable beds and orchard, get them sent off to International &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22130,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions\/22130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}