{"id":6077,"date":"2017-03-01T20:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2017-09-29T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T22:23:09","slug":"sleeping-with-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/sleeping-with-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping With The Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"Do you stare at your smartphone in bed before you finally drift off to sleep? I too, am guilty as charged Your Honour! Now <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Effects_of_blue_lights_technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">blue light<\/a> is affecting our brains and well-being in multiple ways and as this is a recent phenomenon, research continues but the signs are not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/may\/14\/sleep-life-sleeplessness-blue-light-computers-early-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">good<\/a>. Therefore after many years of being a slave to my mobiles at night, I have decided to switch them both off and leave downstairs before I go to bed each night, to avoid the temptation altogether.\r\n\r\nWake up in the middle of the night? What is one of the first things you reach out for? Correct &#8211; your phone. So I have decided to stop this nocturnal bad habit and have a better evening regime. Somewhat inspired by the recent Ikea television spots. I hope the results of this change will mean I am fully rested for the day ahead. It has only been a few days. I started on Sunday 26th February but signs are good. I fall asleep instantly now, as soon as I have read at least a chapter of my current book. As usual, to build good solid new habits you need to have discipline. Time will tell.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you stare at your smartphone in bed before you finally drift off to sleep? I too, am guilty as charged Your Honour! Now blue light is affecting our brains and well-being in multiple ways and as this is a recent phenomenon, research continues but the signs are not good. Therefore after many years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-gadgets","category-offline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}