{"id":6429,"date":"2023-03-11T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2023-03-11T22:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T05:15:22","slug":"forty-eight-minus-twenty-one-oh-thats-right-daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/11\/forty-eight-minus-twenty-one-oh-thats-right-daylight-savings-time\/","title":{"rendered":"[forty-eight] minus twenty-one: oh that&#8217;s right, daylight savings time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6430\" width=\"717\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230212_205226.jpg 1725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll rise, but I do not promise to shine. Why are we still doing this again anyway? Oh, that&#8217;s right &#8230; it&#8217;s complicated, but as usual, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/06\/health\/permanent-daylight-savings-health-harms-wellness\/index.html#:~:text=A%20call%20to%20ban%20Daylight,for%20public%20health%20and%20safety.%E2%80%9D\">our politicians want to do what feels good but is the exact opposite of the science<\/a>. Daylight savings time (shifting ahead of the sun) has negative effects, and doing it year round seems like it will make it worse; but instead of banning it, our politicians want to make it permanent. It&#8217;s a feel-good measure which will do the opposite and make lots of us feel bad (and become more sick).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: Coffee, somewhere (Victory Point Cafe), which, given how perpetually caffeinated I am, will do nothing at all to wake me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll rise, but I do not promise to shine. Why are we still doing this again anyway? Oh, that&#8217;s right &#8230; it&#8217;s complicated, but as usual, our politicians want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[274,280],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-the-wellness-project","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6431,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}