{"id":423,"date":"2022-03-13T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2022-12-23T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:13:24","slug":"spring-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/13\/spring-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0274.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0274.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0274-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of us who still wear <em>real <\/em> watches, and not some Dick-Tracy-wannabe-lets-notify-me-without-having-to-carry-a-phone-yet-another-gadget-tell-me-you\u2019re-a-nerd-without-telling-me-you\u2019re-a-nerd, it\u2019s that time again. Personally, I wish we\u2019d just get rid of Daylight Savings Time altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those with the smart watches will be really happy when the iBrain iMplants come out. Perhaps they\u2019ll even charge themselves off our bodies, essentially, using our bodies as the battery. We\u2019ll just call ourselves copper tops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kid, I kid. I\u2019m a bit envious of Apple watches. But my love of real watches is a bit stronger and wins out. At least for now. I reserve the right to change my mind at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The irony of the movement of my GS and the title of this blog post is not lost on me. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who still wear real watches, and not some Dick-Tracy-wannabe-lets-notify-me-without-having-to-carry-a-phone-yet-another-gadget-tell-me-you\u2019re-a-nerd-without-telling-me-you\u2019re-a-nerd, it\u2019s that time again. Personally, I wish we\u2019d just get rid of Daylight Savings Time altogether. Those with the smart watches will be really happy when the iBrain iMplants come out. Perhaps they\u2019ll even charge themselves off our bodies, essentially, using our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[209,205,206,211,210,207,208],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time","tag-daylight-savings-time","tag-grand-seiko","tag-gs","tag-spring-drive","tag-spring-forward","tag-time","tag-watches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0274.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}