{"id":126204,"date":"2015-11-12T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126204"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:02:51","slug":"the-eight-hour-sleep-session-is-not-what-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126204","title":{"rendered":"The Eight-Hour Sleep Session Is Not What You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_drift\/2015\/11\/12\/you_don_t_need_eight_straight_hours_of_sleep_you_need_three_extra_hours.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The historian A. Roger Ekirch has uncovered a pattern of references to \u201cfirst sleep\u201d and \u201csecond sleep,\u201d or \u201cmorning sleep,\u201d in sources from Homer and Plutarch to John Locke. Until the spread of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, it turns out, our ancestors slept in two shifts of roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between. That interval was a peaceful time, a time for contemplation and reflection and maybe copulation. \u201cUsually, people would retire between 9 and 10 o\u2019clock only to stir past midnight to smoke a pipe, brew a tub of ale or even converse with a neighbor,\u201d Ekirch wrote. \u201cOthers remained in bed to pray or make love.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or &#8211; dare I say it? &#8211; surf the web.<\/p>\n<p>(Note the obligatory dig at &#8216;capitalism&#8217; in the last paragraph &#8212; this article is in <em>Slate<\/em>, after all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The historian A. Roger Ekirch has uncovered a pattern of references to \u201cfirst sleep\u201d and \u201csecond sleep,\u201d or \u201cmorning sleep,\u201d in sources from Homer and Plutarch to John Locke. Until the spread of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, it turns out, our ancestors slept in two shifts of roughly four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126206,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126204\/revisions\/126206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}