{"id":4446,"date":"2024-03-11T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2024-03-11T05:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:01:25","slug":"why-do-we-never-address-the-really-important-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Why do we never address the really important issues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would seriously consider pledging my undying devotion to the first political party that does away with Daylight Savings Time forever. Or keeps it\u00a0<em>on<\/em> Daylights Savings Time forever. Whatever it takes to never change the clocks again.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if they&#8217;re fascists, anarchists, vegetarians, or the Ancient Brotherhood of Elvis Impersonators. They&#8217;ve got my vote if they get rid of Daylight Savings Time, and I would forever change my answer to &#8220;what good has the government ever done?&#8221; from &#8220;nothing since defeating Hitler&#8221; to &#8220;ended Daylight Savings Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a presidential election year. I&#8217;m looking at you, old guys running for president. Here&#8217;s a chance to leave your legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would seriously consider pledging my undying devotion to the first political party that does away with Daylight Savings Time forever. Or keeps it\u00a0on Daylights Savings Time forever. Whatever it takes to never change the clocks again. I don&#8217;t care &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}