{"id":942,"date":"2002-08-03T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2002-08-03T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/no-title-permalink-24\/"},"modified":"2002-08-03T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2002-08-03T08:43:10","slug":"no-title-permalink-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/no-title-permalink-24\/","title":{"rendered":"No Title (Permalink)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder what my brain is playing at. It&#8217;s tired, so I go to bed. Then it won&#8217;t sleep, and insists on me flipping from lying in one direction to the other all night. When I do get to sleep, it&#8217;s unsatisfying dream-sleep with slightly unsettling and even nasty dreams.<br \/>\nEvery so often something wakes me up. Last night it was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Fox screaming unnecessarily loudly<\/li>\n<li>Violently painful leg cramps<\/li>\n<li>An unnatural thirst<\/li>\n<li>Nothing at all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Being woken up for nothing at all is the worst. This is when my brain produces a list of things to worry about. For some reason, lying on ones back in the dark stimulates the brain&#8217;s worry-centres. Here is a list of &#8220;Top of the cack late-night-bed-worries&#8221;: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Money, and the lack of it<\/li>\n<li>Tax assessment<\/li>\n<li>Work<\/li>\n<li>The things I told people I would do and then forgot about<\/li>\n<li>I drink too much and will soon be dead<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve only eaten pizza all day and will soon be dead due to vegetable deficiency<\/li>\n<li>Bills<\/li>\n<li>The thought of having to move house ever again<\/li>\n<li>Did I piss [insert name here] off in the pub tonight &#8211; I was a bit pissed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Why ? Why doesn&#8217;t it just let me sleep. Now I&#8217;m up at 8am typing this shit &#8211; tonight I&#8217;ll be even more knackered and will probably end up with even more late-night anxst..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder what my brain is playing at. It&#8217;s tired, so I go to bed. Then it won&#8217;t sleep, and insists on me flipping from lying in one direction to the other all night. When I do get to sleep, it&#8217;s unsatisfying dream-sleep with slightly unsettling and even nasty dreams. Every so often something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}