{"id":9598,"date":"2023-07-01T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2023-07-01T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:05:53","slug":"sleep-the-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9598","title":{"rendered":"SLEEP: The Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9566-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9597\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9566-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9566-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9566-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9566-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9566-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Home-made banana and strawberry milkshake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I slept <em>not one wink<\/em>. The preceding evening I slept for an hour or two, around 6-7pm. And this morning I got a couple of hours in, 8-10am \u2019ish. This already awful situation is getting worse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, tragically, my excellent little run of alcohol free-ness ended with three cans of Shipyard Ale, quaffed overnight. Out of desperation, frankly. I\u2019d managed nine days off! Pretty pathetic, I suppose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, there\u2019s no alcohol in the fridge anymore. How I resisted those cans winking  at me all that time, I really don\u2019t know. But I did. Now I have to start over again. One day at a time. Resist! I just wish it felt worth the effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been cutting back on tea and coffee heavily as well. And trying to drink lots more plain ol\u2019 <em>wasser<\/em>. And I &#8211; or rather <em>we<\/em> (Teresa as well) &#8211; are succeeding on that front. Of course water alone can be very boring. Hence the fruity milkshakes, like the one atop this post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I slept not one wink. The preceding evening I slept for an hour or two, around 6-7pm. And this morning I got a couple of hours in, 8-10am \u2019ish. This already awful situation is getting worse! And, tragically, my excellent little run of alcohol free-ness ended with three cans of Shipyard Ale, quaffed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SLEEP: The Saga Continues&#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-2uO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598"}],"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=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}