{"id":1597,"date":"2013-02-12T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2013-02-12T07:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:04:55","slug":"i-had-to-get-up-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/i-had-to-get-up-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"I had to get up anyway&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2013\/02\/countingSheep1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2013\/02\/countingSheep1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>This morning my lovely 11 year old nieces woke me up from a dead slumber with a 5am facetime request. I can forgive them because they live in Canada and don\u2019t really have a handle on time differences. Of course their first question was \u201cwhy is it so dark?\u201d since for them it was 10am and daylight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway \u2013 I have been thinking about sleep lately because the latest issue of New Scientist covers the issue of sleep in depth. Recommended reading if you can get your hands on it. While thinking about sleep I also spent some time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/humanbody\/sleep\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0warning though there are so many interesting interactive things to play with you could end up spending more time than you planned!<\/p>\n<p>Finally nothing to do with sleep but I recently received an email with a link to the Quantum World song from this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.symphonyofscience.com\/\"> website<\/a>. I watched a couple of the other ones and thought they were pretty neat. The planets one is good, and not just because Neil de Grasse Tyson is wearing a super funky tie in it. I have put the link to the Climate Change one on Knowledge Forum under the Climate Change question. They\u2019re all worth a look though if you have a spare few minutes &#8211; maybe some soothing science music if you\u2019re having trouble sleeping?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning my lovely 11 year old nieces woke me up from a dead slumber with a 5am facetime request. I can forgive them because they live in Canada and don\u2019t really have a handle on time differences. Of course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/i-had-to-get-up-anyway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,482,15,484,343],"tags":[19274,19275,19273],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-chemistry-resources","category-general","category-physics-resources","category-resources","tag-science-songs","tag-sheep","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}