{"id":4024,"date":"2016-03-12T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2016-03-12T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:55:18","slug":"daylight-savings-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/12\/daylight-savings-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Savings Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daylight Savings Time is one of my pet peeves.\u00a0 Instead of changing TIME to make activities better fit the Earth&#8217;s light \/ dark cycle, how about just changing the time we do those activities?\u00a0 Too dark for kids to go to school early, schedule school later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Instead we make 7 billion people less Arizona, and a few other sparsely populated regions, undergo a total screw-up of their circadian rhythms twice a year.\u00a0 God only knows what the health impact of that is but it can&#8217;t be good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if we ABSOLUTELY MUST do it, why the hell do we move our clocks forward at 2AM on Sunday when it screws us out of an hours sleep and an hour of the weekend?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How about instead we move them an hour forward at 2PM on Friday, thereby shortening the work day and bring the weekend an hour sooner?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daylight Savings Time is one of my pet peeves.\u00a0 Instead of changing TIME to make activities better fit the Earth&#8217;s light \/ dark cycle, how about just changing the time we do those activities?\u00a0 Too dark for kids to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/12\/daylight-savings-time-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}