{"id":262,"date":"2008-09-19T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:36:26","slug":"swine-wine-and-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/swine-wine-and-barrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine, Wine and Barrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barrel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barrel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>The Internet is quite interesting. Connections are made where one may never thought to have looked. Recently a link to Barrel Making, one of the Wine Trail Traveler learning modules, was made from the blog<span>\u00a0 <\/span><a title=\"Avebury forum\" href=\"http:\/\/avebury.forumn.net\/avebury-f1\/sheep-t328.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Avebury Chat<\/a>. Avebury is a village about 84 miles west of London. When I searched the forum for wine, the word swine appeared in several discussions. When I think about swine and wine, I do see a connection between swine and a bottle of Chianti. The discussion at hand though led to a question of wooden hoops used on barrels instead of metal hoops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My understanding is that wooden hoops today are used more for aesthetic purposes.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>At one time however, cellar masters, to watch for signs of insects and rodents, may have used barrels with wooden hoops. The wood used for a hoop is softer than the wooden staves of the barrel. Insects and rodents will chew on the softer wood first, thereby giving the cellar master a heads up to a potential problem.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Swine, Wine and Barrels\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=262\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is quite interesting. Connections are made where one may never thought to have looked. Recently a link to Barrel Making, one of the Wine Trail Traveler learning modules, was made from the blog\u00a0 Avebury Chat. Avebury is a village about 84 miles west of London. When I searched the forum for wine, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,307,98],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wineryevents","tag-barrels-avebury","tag-swine","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}