{"id":8422,"date":"2023-03-10T04:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T04:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2023-03-10T04:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T04:27:29","slug":"health-wellbeing-can-snooker-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8422","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Can Snooker Save Lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6857-1024x576.png\" class=\"wp-image-8420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6857-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6857-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6857-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6857.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mark Williams is one funny fucker!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m currently watching snooker obsessively. Why? Because I\u2019m undergoing the most hardcore bout of depression I\u2019ve experienced in about six or more years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can snooker save my life? I don\u2019t know, to be honest. But I\u2019m just glad it exists. Why does it provide such succour? I<em> really <\/em>don\u2019t know. Again, I\u2019m just glad it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6856-1024x576.png\" class=\"wp-image-8421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6856-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6856-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6856-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6856.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Higgins can only watch, as Williams annihilates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I\u2019ve been bingeing on several mammoth snooker fests. One was the absolute classic, Higgins vs. Williams, at the 2018 World Championship. That was a real belter, no mistake. And watching it silenced the incessant self-destructive mental monologue that plagues me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depression and insomnia are an unhappily married couple. And the fuckers are visiting me daily <em>and<\/em> nightly. Snooker somehow helps screen out their incessant chatter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently watching snooker obsessively. Why? Because I\u2019m undergoing the most hardcore bout of depression I\u2019ve experienced in about six or more years. Can snooker save my life? I don\u2019t know, to be honest. But I\u2019m just glad it exists. Why does it provide such succour? I really don\u2019t know. Again, I\u2019m just glad it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Can Snooker Save Lives?&#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-2bQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422"}],"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=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}