{"id":1650,"date":"2004-01-01T23:47:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T04:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2004-01-01T23:47:16","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T04:47:16","slug":"new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Checkuary!  That&#8217;s the month where you write the previous year&#8217;s date on your checks out of habit, for those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with the oeuvre of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/comics\/comics.html?http&amp;&amp;&amp;www.chortle.co.uk\/comics\/rhall.html\">Rich Hall<\/a>.  And a very special hello to the visitor from Taiwan who hit the site sometime before 4 this morning&#8230;  Sometimes I love checking the server logs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnyway, I kinda broke the vacation paradigm tonight.  I was overwhelmed by a bout of industriousness and did some work.  I racked last year&#8217;s pumpkin wine into a new carboy to clear before bottling, and did the same for the blueberry wine.  In the process, I gained a new respect for the lowly mesh bag.  In the absence of a big honking fermenting bucket, the mesh bag is your best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, you put the gunk that you make the wine out of into the mesh bag, then fish it out once it has broken down.  Instead I wound up using it as a sort of rough filter, catching the worst of the seeds and skin.  I&#8217;d pour the gunk though the bag, into a funnel to the new carboy.  Then I&#8217;d wring the last remnants of liquid out of the bag, leaving a purplish, flaky mass.  And a ton of seeds.  Thousands upon thousands of the little buggers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely looking forward to doing raspberry or strawberry wine this year.  The seeds kind of freak me out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Checkuary! That&#8217;s the month where you write the previous year&#8217;s date on your checks out of habit, for those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with the oeuvre of Rich Hall. And a very special hello to the visitor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1650\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}