{"id":92,"date":"2016-11-07T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-06-17T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T19:12:05","slug":"an-ode-to-daylight-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2016\/11\/07\/an-ode-to-daylight-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Daylight Savings Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In days of old<br \/>\nbefore light required<br \/>\nonly a circuit<br \/>\nchores were done by lantern<br \/>\ntwo hours before breakfast<br \/>\nfor all the important work<br \/>\nof the day required<br \/>\nthe light of the sun<\/p>\n<p>A race against<br \/>\nthe golden chariot<br \/>\nuntil long shadows lit our way home<br \/>\nto a simple supper by candlelight<br \/>\nwith stories and songs<br \/>\naround the fire<br \/>\nuntil wicks<br \/>\nburned down to darkness<\/p>\n<p>But not today<br \/>\nwhen alarms chime<br \/>\nthe sun high in the sky<br \/>\nwe block our eyes from blindness<br \/>\non our way to buildings<br \/>\nartificially lit<br \/>\nlacking windows<br \/>\nunable to see<br \/>\nthe fire that ticks away the day<\/p>\n<p>For we have no need of her<br \/>\nour watches provide us all<br \/>\nuntil such time our labors cease<\/p>\n<p>If we are lucky<br \/>\nthe last of nature&#8217;s glow guides us to our vehicle<br \/>\nwe travel though lighted darkness<br \/>\nto music lessons, grocery shopping, soccer games<br \/>\nlit by strobes so bright they block the moon and stars<\/p>\n<p>Then finally home to abandoned darkened shells<br \/>\nwe flip the switch and make our way<br \/>\nto metal boxes<br \/>\nbright lit and cold<br \/>\nin which we hope for a miracle<br \/>\nthat there will be something good for dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In days of old before light required only a circuit chores were done by lantern two hours before breakfast for all the important work of the day required the light of the sun A race against the golden chariot until long shadows lit our way home to a simple supper by candlelight with stories and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}