{"id":1284,"date":"2009-03-05T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:13:04","slug":"daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/daylight-savings-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Savings Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to spring forward one hour this weekend. Yes, it&#8217;s that time again. Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1290\" title=\"Cherish Sea &amp; Time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/seaandtime.jpg\" alt=\"Cherish Sea &amp; Time\" width=\"425\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/seaandtime.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/seaandtime-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt from &#8220;The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks in 1947: written by Robertson Davies, pretty much sums up my feelings about the daylight savings time issue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to spring forward one hour this weekend. Yes, it&#8217;s that time again. Remember to set your clocks one hour ahead on Sunday. This excerpt from &#8220;The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks in 1947: written by Robertson Davies, pretty much sums up my feelings about the daylight savings time issue. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really care how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[624,19],"tags":[336,334,335,337,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}