{"id":467,"date":"2004-04-04T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2008-07-12T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T22:20:00","slug":"daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Savings Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already come across a few people complaining about Daylight Savings Time. &#8220;We lost a WHOLE hour!&#8221; Whine, whine, whine. Would you like some cheese with your whine? What is the big deal? It&#8217;s one hour on one day. It&#8217;s not like each day suddenly got reduced to 23 hours. <\/p>\n<p>I swear if I catch anyone whining about how their sleep schedule is messed up for the rest of the next week, I will scream. All you had to do was get an extra hour of sleep. Is that really so hard? <\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I think the benefits of DST far outweigh any loss in sleep. The sun is shining even longer and personally, that is a good thing. It&#8217;s depressing when it&#8217;s dark out. I love the sunlight, especially after suffering through a Winter of missing it cause I&#8217;m at work all day and by the time I leave, it&#8217;s setting. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re really that upset, just remember that you will get your precious hour back in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already come across a few people complaining about Daylight Savings Time. &#8220;We lost a WHOLE hour!&#8221; Whine, whine, whine. Would you like some cheese with your whine? What is the big deal? It&#8217;s one hour on one day. It&#8217;s not like each day suddenly got reduced to 23 hours. I swear if I catch anyone whining about how their sleep schedule is messed up for the rest of the next week, I will scream. All you had to do was get an extra hour of sleep. Is that really so hard? Honestly, I think the benefits of DST far outweigh any loss in sleep. The sun is shining even longer and personally, that is a good thing. It&#8217;s depressing when it&#8217;s dark out. I love the sunlight, especially after suffering through a Winter of missing it cause I&#8217;m at work all day and by the time I leave, it&#8217;s <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=467\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}