{"id":1012,"date":"2007-12-28T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/sleep-is-a-sickness\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T15:21:16","slug":"sleep-is-a-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/sleep-is-a-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep is a sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that every human on the planet actually collapses and becomes inert, rarely moving for hours at a time every day?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just you.\u00c2\u00a0 Our metabolism slows, we can&#8217;t do anything useful and we are generally unresponsive to external stimuli.\u00c2\u00a0 By all accounts this epidemic has raged for as long as we have written history, and maybe even longer.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we have science to save us from this horrible horrible condition.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently they have finally developed a drug that keeps you awake when you snort it, and it&#8217;s not cocaine.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s no apparent side effects, apart from the uncontrollable feeling of smugness that comes from not needing to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank heavens.\u00c2\u00a0 The only downside is they will only give it to monkeys so far.\u00c2\u00a0 Damn smug monkeys, they always get the best stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2007\/12\/sleep_deprivation\">a read for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that every human on the planet actually collapses and becomes inert, rarely moving for hours at a time every day?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just you.\u00c2\u00a0 Our metabolism slows, we can&#8217;t do anything useful and we are generally unresponsive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/sleep-is-a-sickness\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}