{"id":1836,"date":"2009-03-09T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2009-03-09T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:17:12","slug":"sugar-sugar-maple-maple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/sugar-sugar-maple-maple\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar, sugar (maple, maple!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Ottawa peeps &#8211; got a question for you!  Now that the snow is melting and the sun is bright, the sap is running and it&#8217;s maple syrup season again.  Hooray for spring!!  <\/p>\n<p>My brother and his family are coming up to visit for the March Break, and I thought it would be fun to do Sunday morning breakfast at a sugar shack, so I&#8217;m collating a list of the best ones in the area.  Bare necessities include family-friendly pancake breakfast and maple taffy on the snow, but bonus points for easy hiking trails, wagon rides, animals, and play structures or activities for the kids.  I&#8217;d prefer something on the Ontario side of the river, but if you know of a really stellar <em>cabane \u00c3\u00a0 sucre<\/em> in <em>la belle province<\/em>, let me know! Charm also wins out over cafeteria-style folding chairs and stacking tables. <\/p>\n<p>Mmmmm, maple sugar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And, \u00c3\u00a0 propos of nothing, but possibly segueing on the theme of spring, can I show off this picture that I took yesterday that I think is one of my best so far?<\/p>\n<div aling=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3338711867\/\" title=\"48:365 Fence posts 2 of 2 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3344\/3338711867_61edf604b6.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" alt=\"48:365 Fence posts 2 of 2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sort of captures the whole spring-melt-sunshine-on-snow feeling of maple season, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Ottawa peeps &#8211; got a question for you! Now that the snow is melting and the sun is bright, the sap is running and it&#8217;s maple syrup season again. Hooray for spring!! My brother and his family are coming up to visit for the March Break, and I thought it would be fun to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/sugar-sugar-maple-maple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sugar, sugar (maple, maple!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-ottawa","category-ottawa-family-fun","category-ottawas-hidden-treasures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}