{"id":5742,"date":"2016-03-13T18:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2016-03-13T18:36:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:36:56","slug":"dark-mornings-return-stop-dst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2016\/dark-mornings-return-stop-dst","title":{"rendered":"Dark Mornings Return &#8211; Stop DST!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5744 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fuel_prices-150x92.jpg\" alt=\"fuel_prices\" width=\"150\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fuel_prices-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fuel_prices-400x245.jpg 400w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fuel_prices.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><strong>Daylight Saving Time<\/strong> is one of many anachronisms\u00a0of modern life. Very similar to\u00a0the <strong>nine-tenths of a penny<\/strong> added to gasoline prices in the US&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the two have much in common. Both date back to the early 1900&#8217;s. Both were supposed to be temporary. Both have strong commercial constituancies that have helped them survive long after any societal benefit has waned (if there ever was one!).<\/p>\n<p>This article\u00a0in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> today is a good summary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2015\/03\/time-to-kill-daylight-saving\/387175\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daylight Saving Time\u00a0is Wasteful, Unnecessary, And Even Dangerous!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stopdst.com\" target=\"_blank\">stopdst.com<\/a> website and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23stopDST\" target=\"_blank\">#StopDST<\/a> hashtag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight Saving Time is one of many anachronisms\u00a0of modern life. Very similar to\u00a0the nine-tenths of a penny added to gasoline prices in the US&#8230; It turns out that the two have much in common. Both date back to the early 1900&#8217;s. Both were supposed to be temporary. Both have strong commercial constituancies that have helped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2016\/dark-mornings-return-stop-dst\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark Mornings Return &#8211; Stop DST!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5747,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}