{"id":6721,"date":"2025-11-29T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:20:47","slug":"candle-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2025\/11\/29\/candle-making\/","title":{"rendered":"candle making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bunch of pillar candles that we haven&#8217;t used in years; one of the partially melted red candles is on the left. So Doug decided to melt them down and make votives, which we use on a regular basis.\u00a0 He melted the candles in a coffee can and then poured the wax into a container to be cutdown and used as needed. You can see the difference in color between the freshly poured wax, and the lighter colored solidified wax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6722\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-376x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-376x500.jpg 376w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-151x200.jpg 151w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251129_180106873.MP_-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bunch of pillar candles that we haven&#8217;t used in years; one of the partially melted red candles is on the left. So Doug decided to melt them down and make votives, which we use on a regular basis.\u00a0 He melted the candles in a coffee can and then poured the wax into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2025\/11\/29\/candle-making\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">candle making<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}