{"id":764,"date":"2021-03-14T23:17:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2021-03-14T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:23:13","slug":"suddenly-spring-and-dst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/suddenly-spring-and-dst\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly Spring and DST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can&#8217;t believe spring started a week ago (oh, I know, not <em>officially<\/em>) and now it&#8217;s that damnable Daylight Saving Time. Where did that name come from, anyway? They can&#8217;t save daylight. You get the same amount of daylight in a day no matter what time you set on your clock. The crazy thing is the grass has turned green and started growing, the mornings are noisy with chirping birds, and they must be finding bugs to eat so I won&#8217;t be surprised if the mosquitoes are swarming any moment now. I suppose there could be a surprise snowstorm in the works and, if it actually happens, I would be quite surprised. This just feels too much like winter is history. Hey! Here&#8217;s a selfie from one of our walks last week. Sorry, kinda cut most of Becky out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2021\/03\/20210302_135922-1024x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765\" width=\"840\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2021\/03\/20210302_135922-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2021\/03\/20210302_135922-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2021\/03\/20210302_135922-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2021\/03\/20210302_135922-1536x727.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2021\/03\/20210302_135922-2048x970.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Tried to shoot a selfie of us out walking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t believe spring started a week ago (oh, I know, not officially) and now it&#8217;s that damnable Daylight Saving Time. Where did that name come from, anyway? They can&#8217;t save daylight. You get the same amount of daylight in a day no matter what time you set on your clock. The crazy thing is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}