{"id":583,"date":"2009-11-24T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-11-24T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T00:18:10","slug":"living-in-the-central-time-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/11\/living-in-the-central-time-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Central Time Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>For all but a day or two, the walking in 2009 was done in the Central Time Zone. I had a tough time <a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/09\/on-the-edge-of-a-time-zone\/\">switching from Eastern time to Central time (see this post)<\/a>. Once switched, however, I loved the Central Time zone.<\/p>\n<p>Television programs that start at 8 PM Eastern time start at 7 PM Central time. Monday Night football starts at 7:30 PM. Sunday Night football starts at 7:30 PM. So what? The sun comes up about 6:30 AM, and I hit the road at 7 AM. That means turning out the lights and trying to fall asleep at 9 PM. That is an early schedule. It is nice to be able to watch a little television in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood why television doesn&#8217;t operate on this schedule in the Eastern Time Zone. Anyways, I loved the Central Time Zone. Maybe one day I will retire there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips For all but a day or two, the walking in 2009 was done in the Central Time Zone. I had a tough time switching from Eastern time to Central time (see this post). Once switched, however, I loved the Central Time zone. Television programs that start at 8 PM Eastern time start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}