{"id":162,"date":"2006-03-03T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-04-18T17:10:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T16:10:04","slug":"sleep-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/sleep-deprivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/03\/things-they-dont-tell-you\/\">a post on Grayblog<\/a> to say something that&#8217;s on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Someone with whom I have daily contact has a teenage son. Daily contact frequently involves some sort of joke drawn from the hat of *and you&#8217;ve got lack of sleep to look forward to in a few months* remarks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never quite sure how to respond. I could matter of factly say yes, I am aware that when I become a father in 3.5 months, there will be sleep loss of some degree. I don&#8217;t see much point in trying to fight it. Sleep loss is not something which I have a lot of experience of, so I don&#8217;t see much point in investing a lot of time worrying about it in advance. My expectations are almost certainly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I pick away at the issue like meat from a drumstick, and ultimately come to this final conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>**If it wasn&#8217;t worth it, then we&#8217;d be extinct by now.**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired by a post on Grayblog to say something that&#8217;s on my mind. Someone with whom I have daily contact has a teenage son. Daily contact frequently involves some sort of joke drawn from the hat of *and you&#8217;ve got lack of sleep to look forward to in a few months* remarks. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}