{"id":15571,"date":"2025-06-20T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15571"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:55:55","slug":"why-wednesday-evening-my-phone-offered-to-suspend-my-alarm-for-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/20\/why-wednesday-evening-my-phone-offered-to-suspend-my-alarm-for-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY? Wednesday evening my phone offered to suspend my alarm for Juneteenth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Clock.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Clock.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/>Really?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why would my phone offer to disable my alarm for that? It\u2019s never offered to suspend any other alarms for other holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King\u2019s birthday &#8211; Jan 20, 2025 was on a Monday<br \/>Presidents Day &#8211; February 17, 2025 another Monday<br \/>St Patrick\u2019s Day &#8211; March 17th 2025 another Monday<br \/>Easter &#8211; April 20th 2025 a Sunday<br \/>Memorial Day &#8211; May 26, 2025 a Monday<\/p>\n<p>But, I get a notification to modify my daily alarm about Juneteenth on a Thursday? What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be interested to see if a notification appears for Independence Day July 4th 2025, that\u2019s on a Friday. How about Labor Day September 1st 2025? That\u2019s a Monday<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of my phone offering to turn off the alarm on a Federal holiday to allow me to sleep in, but wonder if this is just pandering on the part of Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really?\u00a0 Why would my phone offer to disable my alarm for that? It\u2019s never offered to suspend any other alarms for other holidays. Martin Luther King\u2019s birthday &#8211; Jan 20, 2025 was on a MondayPresidents Day &#8211; February 17, 2025 another MondaySt Patrick\u2019s Day &#8211; March 17th 2025 another MondayEaster &#8211; April 20th 2025 a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/20\/why-wednesday-evening-my-phone-offered-to-suspend-my-alarm-for-juneteenth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHY? Wednesday evening my phone offered to suspend my alarm for Juneteenth.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,59],"tags":[171,178],"class_list":["post-15571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-apple","tag-annoyances","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15572,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions\/15572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}