{"id":2048,"date":"2008-10-31T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2008-10-31T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T15:26:05","slug":"extra-hour-of-sleep-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"Extra hour of sleep? Ha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/29\/the-daylight-savings-loss\/?hp\">blog entry<\/a> on Daylight Saving Time yesterday, and it made me laugh. Referring to the &#8220;falling back&#8221; of the clocks, the blogger wrote, &#8220;I [used to] look forward to it all year, and distinctly remember my horror during my first changeover as a new parent, when my gift turned on me.&#8221; She went on to explain that for most adults, switching back to standard time means an extra hour of sleep. But for a parent, he\/she is bound to hear very early in the morning &#8220;the sounds of a wide awake young one in the other room. Instead of an extra hour of sleep, parents of young children get an hour less. The clock says 5 a.m., the baby says &#8216;woohoo, it feels like 6!&#8217; Then, in the evening, they start sleepily fussing a full hour before it is time to go to bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though a wonderful thing in general, parenting definitely takes some things away from you &#8211; and the enjoyment of the fall-back is one of them! I know I&#8217;ll be thinking of this on Sun. morning, when a little girl starts talking around 5 or 5:30 AM. (Yawn.)<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a New York Times blog entry on Daylight Saving Time yesterday, and it made me laugh. Referring to the &#8220;falling back&#8221; of the clocks, the blogger wrote, &#8220;I [used to] look forward to it all year, and distinctly remember my horror during my first changeover as a new parent, when my gift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27almost-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}