It is difficult to parse the dates easily since they don't include UTC offset information.
Of course this means that the date should be assumed to be in local timezone but for those of use paring the API 
responses using JavaScript this makes date processing cumbersome.

For instance the date returned for the "MIWMI" event is "2016-03-24T00:00:00"
The event does start on 3/24 but in JavaScript parsing this date using...
var eventDate = new Date("2016-03-24T00:00:00")
results in a date of "Wed Mar 23 2016 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)"
The is because JavaScript assumes a date in ISO 8601 format that doesn't have timezone information is in the UTC 
timezone.
Since I'm in EDT JavaScript subtracts 4 hours from the date.
So, now, for every date I parse I have to add those 4 hours back programmatically.

The date I'd like to see passed to me from the API would be "2016-03-24T04:00:00Z"
or "2016-03-24T00:00:00-04:00"