{"id":5177,"date":"2013-09-07T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2013-09-07T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:01:38","slug":"note-to-self-the-drain-goes-on-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/note-to-self-the-drain-goes-on-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to self: the drain goes on the bottom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly of the large Matala Biosteps filter&#8212;unaided by anything but the pretty-bad picture on the box&#8212;the instructions had a way of leapfrogging over the critical bit, like, which is the FRONT of this thing?&#8212;went fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>And it did run nicely, and I have clear water.<\/p>\n<p>Backflushing, however, poured everything back into the pond.<\/p>\n<p>We have now come to our senses and realized that the most obvious thing, after we figured out all the rest of the really arcane stuff correctly&#8212;is to make the bottom hole the drain, and the TOP hole the inflow.<\/p>\n<p>It was very wet and soupy getting this corrected.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly of the large Matala Biosteps filter&#8212;unaided by anything but the pretty-bad picture on the box&#8212;the instructions had a way of leapfrogging over the critical bit, like, which is the FRONT of this thing?&#8212;went fairly well. And it did run nicely, and I have clear water. Backflushing, however, poured everything back into the pond. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}