{"id":6072,"date":"2014-11-02T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2014-11-02T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:03:09","slug":"mmm-daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/mmm-daylight-savings-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmm&#8212;daylight savings time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My clock says 8:50 and my computer says 7:55. D&#8217;ya think? <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the DST change can account for the five minutes. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t mind it at all. Up here in the northern latitudes, with greatly diminished daylight, it gets to where, by winter solstice, you feel as if you&#8217;re living in a narrow band of light between a whole lot of dark. Sunset by 4:30&#8230;but getting me up so I can actually see the sun rise rather than sleeping through the morning light is a good thing. It makes sure I get up with the sun.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8216;fall back&#8217; [setting the clock back] is more yawn-producing than &#8216;spring forward&#8217; when you get the sleep back. In the days when I taught school, that was always a lovely morning, the forward bit.<\/p>\n<p>The difficult sell is convincing the cats that food comes on a different schedule. When they travel with us, they adapt to Central time real easily, and fuss at us when we get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My clock says 8:50 and my computer says 7:55. D&#8217;ya think? I don&#8217;t think the DST change can account for the five minutes. \ud83d\ude09 I really don&#8217;t mind it at all. Up here in the northern latitudes, with greatly diminished daylight, it gets to where, by winter solstice, you feel as if you&#8217;re living in [&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-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","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=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}