{"id":1936,"date":"2022-03-13T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:13:16","slug":"arbitrary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/81376415_1115119772207939_3711026875046228594_n.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>These twice a year time changes we do \u2014 forwards in Spring, backwards in Fall \u2014 feel so arbitrary and counterintuitive to me. Perhaps rather insolent on the part of the powers that be who instituted it in the first place. Measuring our days and seasons by the rhythms of the natural world (including my own biorhythms) makes more sense to me, and in the early days after a time change I tend to say \u201cit\u2019s really\u00a0 \u2014\u2014 o\u2019clock,\u201d until I finally \u201cfeel\u201d like it\u2019s the time it\u2019s now \u201csupposed\u201d to be. I find calling it \u201cdaylight savings time\u201d to be pretty funny, like it\u2019s some sort of special \u201ctime outside of time.\u201d It\u2018s still the same amount of daylight every day, regardless of what a clock says. And what are we saving it for anyway? Where are we going to put it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These twice a year time changes we do \u2014 forwards in Spring, backwards in Fall \u2014 feel so arbitrary and counterintuitive to me. Perhaps rather insolent on the part of the powers that be who instituted it in the first place. Measuring our days and seasons by the rhythms of the natural world (including my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arbitrary Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}