{"id":59,"date":"2013-05-24T04:39:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-06-07T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T20:24:04","slug":"kids-branch-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/kids-branch-sap\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids, Branch Sap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, the neighbor&#8217;s 4yr old got curious about the workbench and all the tools, pulling them out one after another (usually the sharp ones) and immediately brandishing them against the bench.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61\" alt=\"Maddox's Vice\" src=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7048.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7048.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7048-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7048-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maddox&#8217;s Vice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I did what I could to keep up, but by the time the other two boys showed up, and we started making swords, it started getting a little chaotic. Good times.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some aspen drying out for several years now, most of which went into making the (sitting) bench a while back, but there were a few scrap branches (aka reaction wood) left over. Curious thing: apparently as the bark dehydrated and sunk in close to the branches, the sap started getting squeezed out, and then hardened into these orage whisker things.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60\" alt=\"Aspen Whiskers\" src=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7056.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7056.jpg 512w, https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7056-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aspen Whiskers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Russ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, the neighbor&#8217;s 4yr old got curious about the workbench and all the tools, pulling them out one after another (usually the sharp ones) and immediately brandishing them against the bench. I did what I could to keep up, but by the time the other two boys showed up, and we started making swords, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p6ZE-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}