{"id":14441,"date":"2013-03-10T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/03\/10\/14441.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:05:02","slug":"good-morning-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/03\/10\/good-morning-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning, everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your Humble Blogger was musing on the differing attitudes toward this morning’s clock-meddling. My fondness for Daylight Saving is on record<\/a>, but that seems to be a minority view amongst my friends and neighbors. Who, I suppose, want to get up and work out before work? I don’t really understand it, myself. Sunset at 6:52 tonight! Whoo-hoo! But there’s the bigger philosophical question of whether you feel robbed by the clock manipulation. I tend to see it as giving back the hour we got a few months ago.\n

But then, I was born in the summer. People born in the Daylight actually do get an hour free that first autumn of their lives. They give it back before the year is up, sure. But then they get another one! And they keep going like that, borrowing an hour from their future every fall and giving it back every spring.\n

Winter babies, though, lose the hour the first time they spring forward. And, yes, they get it back in the fall, but that just makes them even again, back where they started. As the summer children keep going ahead and then even, the winter children lose ground and catch up; they never quite match. When the summers get a free hour, the winters are just getting back to even. When the winters are having their hour stolen whilst they sleep, the summers are (reluctantly) returning their bonus. Year after year. Of course, the older folks of April and May may have been winters; the younger ones will be summers. This will be very confusing for those persons trying to determine whether to become optimists or pessimists; their hourglass is only half-full.\n

As I was musing, though, I remembered that I stayed on the Lord’s time until I was eighteen. Arizona folk respect the sun, but we don’t try to get more of it. I experienced the clock-meddling as something that other people did—a phone call to California would involve an hour difference in the winter but not the summer. An East Coast call would travel across three hours in the summer, but only two in the winter. I think I remember that this affected television schedules, but in those days the summer was all reruns anyway. No, my first extended experience of Daylight Saving was in the Pennsylvania autumn, which as it happens was my first extended experience of autumn, and my first real experience of the days getting significantly shorter. Perhaps, then, my pro-clock-meddling philosophy is more accurately attributed to… er… yeah.\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger is honestly a little tired, but then I’m usually a little tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16710,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions\/16710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}