{"id":622,"date":"2012-10-26T19:43:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T00:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=622"},"modified":"2012-12-22T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T01:07:59","slug":"sorry-i-didnt-get-to-this-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Sorry I Didn&#8217;t Get to This Sooner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"syrupTap\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/syrupTap.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"206\" \/>After all, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/09\/why-does-canada-have-a-strategic-maple-syrup-reserve\/261869\/\">heinous crime<\/a> was discovered ages ago.\u00a0 But it took me this long to find a discussion of the theft of millions of pounds of Canada&#8217;s strategic maple syrup reserve that didn&#8217;t reference a &#8220;sticky situation&#8221;, or worse yet &#8220;sticky-fingered thieves&#8221;.\u00a0 I have too much respect for you, the readers of this blog, to have truck with weak puns.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have to say there is something sad about a strategic syrup reserve.\u00a0 Here in New York, maple syrup is still produced by local farmers as a secondary income stream, and thus subject to wild price fluctuations brought on by outbreaks of tent caterpillars and so on.\u00a0 It seems to me that&#8217;s how it should be, but leave it to Canada to industrialize and commoditize everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all, the heinous crime was discovered ages ago.\u00a0 But it took me this long to find a discussion of the theft of millions of pounds of Canada&#8217;s strategic maple syrup reserve that didn&#8217;t reference a &#8220;sticky situation&#8221;, or worse yet &#8220;sticky-fingered thieves&#8221;.\u00a0 I have too much respect for you, the readers of this blog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}