{"id":11943,"date":"2012-06-27T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2013-03-09T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:16:24","slug":"daylight-saving-time-once-got-a-guy-out-of-having-to-go-fight-in-the-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/daylight-saving-time-once-got-a-guy-out-of-having-to-go-fight-in-the-vietnam-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Saving Time Once Got a Guy Out of Having to Go Fight in the Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/daylight-saving-time-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11944\" title=\"daylight-saving-time-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/daylight-saving-time-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/daylight-saving-time-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/daylight-saving-time-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daylight saving time once got a man out of being drafted for the Vietnam War.\u00a0 When drafted, he argued that standard time, not daylight saving time, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware at the time of his birth.\u00a0 Thus, he was actually born the previous day using standard time, so he should have had a higher draft lottery number.\u00a0 This defense worked and he didn&#8217;t have to go to war.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Daylight Saving Time vs. Daylight Savings Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/its-daylight-saving-time-not-daylight-savings-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight saving time once got a man out of being drafted for the Vietnam War.\u00a0 When drafted, he argued that standard time, not daylight saving time, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware at the time of his birth.\u00a0 Thus, he was actually born the previous day using standard time, so he should have had [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[911,2803],"class_list":["post-11943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bizarre-facts","tag-daylight-saving-time-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19924,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions\/19924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}