{"id":23940,"date":"2024-10-09T18:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23940"},"modified":"2024-10-09T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:01:47","slug":"health-wellbeing-early-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23940","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Early to Bed\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well\u2026 I\u2019ve just come upstairs, to go to bed. And it\u2019s not even 6 pm! I slept till midday as well. But I am <em>ridiculously<\/em> exhausted. I have to confess, I think it\u2019s depression exhaustion, as much as anything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might also be this lingering cold? I\u2019m over the worst, at least in terms of when I was producing rivers of snot. But I\u2019m finding it hard to- or rather next to impossible &#8211; to shift the irritable throat cough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019ve had something g in that line almost permanently since just before Covid officially hit. I\u2019m still no wiser as to what that\u2019s all about. But a general raspy tickle crackly wheeze SS has become almost the norm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a single bottle of Perlenbacher 4% lager today. Surely that can\u2019t be the reason? It\u2019s certainly not the <em>sole<\/em> reason. But, I suspect, very sadly, that at present, any alcohol is just a bad idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sexual frustration, and my overactive libido, play a part. Anyway, whatever\u2026 as folk say these days. I just want to be asleep. Please, please\u2026 <em>pleeease<\/em>\u2026 sleep, come and dull the pain of living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switch off the world. Please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well\u2026 I\u2019ve just come upstairs, to go to bed. And it\u2019s not even 6 pm! I slept till midday as well. But I am ridiculously exhausted. I have to confess, I think it\u2019s depression exhaustion, as much as anything else. It might also be this lingering cold? I\u2019m over the worst, at least in terms &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Early to Bed\u2026&#8221;<\/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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6e8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}