{"id":12128,"date":"2007-11-09T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/09\/second-things-first.html"},"modified":"2007-11-09T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T20:04:34","slug":"second_things_first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/second_things_first.html","title":{"rendered":"Second Things First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How was it that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/story\/2011296\/\" target=\"_blank\">the second-born twin was actually born earlier than the first-born?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Sullivan Cirioli was dubbed &#8220;Baby A&#8221; at WakeMed Cary when he arrived early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYes, Peter was born first, it was at 1:32 a.m.,\u201d mother Laura Cirioli said.<\/p>\n<p> Thirty-four minutes later, Peter&#8217;s twin sister, Allison Raye Cirioli, known as &#8220;Baby B,&#8221; made her entrance into the world.<\/p>\n<p> Because of Daylight Saving Time, Allison&#8217;s time of birth was 1:06 a.m., which makes her 26 minutes older than her brother even though he was born first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, still more proof that DST is against the natural order of things &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekpress.com\/2007\/11\/twins-were-born-last-weekend-but-due-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">GeekPress<\/a>)<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How was it that the second-born twin was actually born earlier than the first-born?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/days-of-future-past.html","url_meta":{"origin":12128,"position":0},"title":"Days of Future Past","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Feb-12 2:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love The Onion. 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