{"id":1560,"date":"2003-09-28T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2003-09-28T00:38:02","modified_gmt":"2003-09-28T05:38:02","slug":"hey-its-insomnia-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Hey!  It&#8217;s insomnia time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m up and about.  Bright of eye and bushy of tail.  Why should a little thing like the time bother me?  Sure, it&#8217;s after midnight and the rest of the household is snoozing away, but that&#8217;s no reason for me to turn in!  I&#8217;m wired!  I&#8217;m awake!  I&#8217;m <b>CAPTAIN INSOMNIA<\/b>!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s kind of comforting, sitting here in the living room, listening to the snoozing sounds from my fiancee and the two felines.  Right now, I&#8217;m out here for their benefit as well as my own.  I don&#8217;t want to be lying in bed, tapping my foot against the bed frame, keeping them awake&#8230;  Although I am tempted to sneak in at 1 am and wake my fiancee by saying &#8220;It&#8217;s Question Time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1 am Question Time is something that dates back to when my Fiancee and I were fist dating.  We&#8217;d share childhood memories and personal details&#8230;  Sometimes I&#8217;d drift into a half awake \/ half asleep state where my voice would continue to function normally, but my brain would toss incomprehensible words and phrases into what had been an otherwise normal conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done it recently&#8230; Not that I can remember at any rate.  On the other hand we&#8217;ve had a new variation on the heavy eyelid phenomenon.  That&#8217;s where a wide awake person is attempting to have a conversation with someone who is not quite so wide awake.  The conversationalist gets to watch the less awake person&#8217;s eyelids droop over their eyes.  Each blink becomes more of an effort, and eventually they fall asleep.  Usually I&#8217;m the one whose eyes close like that, but recently it&#8217;s been my Fiancee.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m gonna go try working out again, then I&#8217;m off for a hot shower and another attempt to snooze.  G&#8217;night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m up and about. Bright of eye and bushy of tail. Why should a little thing like the time bother me? Sure, it&#8217;s after midnight and the rest of the household is snoozing away, but that&#8217;s no reason &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}