{"id":42,"date":"2013-12-23T18:19:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2013\/12\/the-passive-solar-bird-bath.html"},"modified":"2013-12-23T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:19:33","slug":"the-passive-solar-bird-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/12\/the-passive-solar-bird-bath.html","title":{"rendered":"The Passive Solar Bird Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.builditsolar.com\/Projects\/WaterHeating\/BirdBath\/SolarBirdBath.htm\" target=\"_blank\">passive solar bird bath<\/a> provides some unfrozen water in the winter for the birds to drink. Its a nice simple design that is easy to build. The sun shines through the glazed panel on the south side of the pedistal and warms a solar absorber which heats the bird bath from below during the day. Jim got the idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.builditsolar.com\/Projects\/WaterHeating\/SolarHorseTank\/SolarHorseTank.htm\" target=\"_blank\">passive solar horse watering troughs<\/a>. Find the building plans at BuildItSolar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passive solar bird bath provides some unfrozen water in the winter for the birds to drink. Its a nice simple design that is easy to build. The sun shines through the glazed panel on the south side of the pedistal and warms a solar absorber which heats the bird bath from below during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}