{"id":30099,"date":"2015-03-09T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=30099"},"modified":"2016-05-06T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:34:28","slug":"standard-time-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=30099","title":{"rendered":"Standard Time Guy"},"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 Black Mountain Moon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes. It happened. DST. Daylight Saving Time. Kate found a great quote on Facebook: Only the white man would think cutting a foot from one end of a quilt and sewing it on the other end would result in a longer quilt.<\/p>\n<p>Just as I&#8217;ve adapted back to Standard time, and done it well, with the aid of the move, chronos slip streams away, shifts underneath me. Proves fungible. Isn&#8217;t that a scary thought? Fungible time. If you can&#8217;t trust time, what can you trust? Space, you might say, but then it was Einstein wasn&#8217;t it, who described its curvature in concert with time?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we let Fleming&#8217;s idea stand as proposed? He says.<\/p>\n<p>No matter. Life&#8217;s absurdities don&#8217;t need more data to underwrite their chaotic ways. Today this hour\u00a0is 10:00 a.m. Tomorrow 11:00 a.m. Today a foot is twelve inches, tomorrow 13. Because for now it suits our purposes better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking, as a retired guy, with no work obligations to keep and no longer a slave to corporate television, that I may just skip DST. Let it wash over me like an upslope wind.<\/p>\n<p>Call me STG. Standard Time Guy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 Black Mountain Moon &nbsp; Yes. It happened. DST. Daylight Saving Time. Kate found a great quote on Facebook: Only the white man would think cutting a foot from one end of a quilt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=30099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standard Time Guy<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","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=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38034,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions\/38034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}