{"id":8,"date":"2012-06-01T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/blogwp\/?p=8"},"modified":"2013-01-30T22:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T03:42:17","slug":"why-do-we-stay-up-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Why do we stay up late?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to staying up late, I am a bonafide expert. What is it about those fleeting hours between midnight and 4 a.m. that are so enticing? That make me feel like I can do anything, create anything, succeed at anything.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center>&#8220;It was three o&#8217;clock in the morning \u2013 the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.&#8221;<\/center><center>\u2015\u00a0L.M. Montgomery,\u00a0<em>The Blue Castle<\/em><\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><\/center><center style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><\/center><center><\/center><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/nightowl.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"348\" \/><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know I will regret it in the morning that I stayed up so late. I&#8217;ll have to use concealer to cover up the dark circles growing under my eyes that should not be there at my age. And I will tell myself &#8220;I should not have stayed up, I will go to sleep before midnight tomorrow.&#8221; Then tomorrow night comes and I think, &#8220;oh just another thirty minutes. Certainly that won&#8217;t hurt.&#8221; And then the hours pass and I find the clock&#8217;s small hand nearing that four and I sigh in defeat. Thus the cycle continues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When it comes to staying up late, I am a bonafide expert. What is it about those fleeting hours between midnight and 4 a.m. that are so enticing? That make me feel like I can do anything, create anything,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,25,24],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughtfuls","tag-creation","tag-insomnia","tag-night-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siriuswhimsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}