{"id":25095,"date":"2014-03-08T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2016-04-29T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T23:09:23","slug":"keep-time-the-way-nature-intended-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25095","title":{"rendered":"Keep Time the Way Nature Intended It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hare Moon<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a scourge. \u00a0It&#8217;s unnatural. \u00a0It&#8217;s Daylight Savings Time. \u00a0Aside from being an obvious oxymoron, this idea forces us to change our sleep patterns every six months. \u00a0Sleep is important and habits are important to sleep. \u00a0Ergo.<\/p>\n<p>(Plus, trees don&#8217;t change time.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a NYT room for debate piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2014\/03\/06\/daylight-saving-time-at-what-cost\">subject<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For days after \u201cspringing forward,\u201d many of us feel a little jet-lagged and cranky. And the research is piling up to show that the time change affects more than our mood. It changes energy use, health, worker productivity and even traffic safety.<\/p>\n<p>Does daylight saving time do more harm than good?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hare Moon It&#8217;s a scourge. \u00a0It&#8217;s unnatural. \u00a0It&#8217;s Daylight Savings Time. \u00a0Aside from being an obvious oxymoron, this idea forces us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep Time the Way Nature Intended It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekworld","category-great-wheel","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35472,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions\/35472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}