{"id":417116,"date":"2010-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/daylight_saving_time_is_almost"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:49:26","slug":"daylight-saving-time-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417116","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Saving Time is Almost Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"sundial\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/sundial10.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>I&#8217;m looking forward to 2 a.m. Sunday morning like a little kid looks forward to Christmas. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Why you ask?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Because that is when we spring the clocks forward and <a title=\"Daylight saving time\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6880&amp;p_created=1130179886&amp;p_sid=1ShlkvWj&amp;p_accessibility=0&amp;p_redirect=&amp;p_lva=&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NTM4LDUzOCZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWRheWxpZ2h0IHNhdmluZyB0aW1l&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1\">Daylight Saving Time<\/a> begins! <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Yes, it means we lose an hour of sleep, which I&#8217;m not a fan of, but the longer days totally make up for it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">No more leaving work as the sun is setting and getting home when<\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> it&#8217;s pitch black.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Longer days mean the arrival of spring and then summer, the end of the <a title=\"Seasonal Affective disorder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/seasonalaffectivedisorder.html\">winter blahs<\/a><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">,<br \/>\nand hopefully warmer temperatures. Overall, longer days make me a<br \/>\nhappier person because I can spend more time in the sunshine soaking up<br \/>\nthe <a title=\"vitamin d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/002405.htm\">Vitaman D<\/a><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> when I get off work.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Are you looking forward to the time change as much as I am? Or are you a winter person sad to see your favorite season ending?<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to 2 a.m. Sunday morning like a little kid looks forward to Christmas. Why you ask? Because that is when we spring the clocks forward and Daylight Saving Time begins! Yes, it means we lose an hour of sleep, which I&#8217;m not a fan of, but the longer days totally make up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}