{"id":60503,"date":"2017-08-26T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T22:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=60503"},"modified":"2017-08-26T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T22:58:20","slug":"smudge-pot-tonight-at-citrus-college-700-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=60503","title":{"rendered":"Smudge Pot: Tonight &#8211; Citrus College 7:00 P.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=60504\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-60504\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Florida_Smudge_Pot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Florida_Smudge_Pot.jpg 609w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Florida_Smudge_Pot-29x70.jpg 29w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Florida_Smudge_Pot-123x300.jpg 123w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Florida_Smudge_Pot-62x150.jpg 62w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Smudge Pot: Bonita vs. San Dimas, Citrus College, Tonight 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A <b>smudge pot<\/b> (also known as a <b>choofa<\/b> or <b>orchard heater<\/b>) is an <a title=\"Oil\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oil\">oil<\/a>-burning device used to prevent <a title=\"Frost\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frost\">frost<\/a> on <a title=\"Orchard\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orchard\">fruit trees<\/a>. Usually a smudge pot has a large round base with a chimney coming out of the middle of the base. The smudge pot is placed between trees in an <a title=\"Orchard\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orchard\">orchard<\/a>. The burning oil creates some heat, but more importantly, a large amount of smoke, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Atmospheric particulate matter\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atmospheric_particulate_matter\">particulates<\/a>, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. This deliberate smog forms a &#8220;blanket&#8221; that blocks infrared light, thereby preventing <a title=\"Radiative cooling\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radiative_cooling\">radiative cooling<\/a> that would otherwise cause or worsen frost.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smudge_pot#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> (Low clouds can have a similar &#8220;infrared blanket&#8221; effect, which is why cloudy nights tend to be warmer than clear-sky nights.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smudge Pot: Bonita vs. San Dimas, Citrus College, Tonight 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[7635,1652,7742,1077],"class_list":["post-60503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-bonita-football","tag-citrus-college","tag-san-dimas-football","tag-smudge-pot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60508,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503\/revisions\/60508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}