{"id":26348,"date":"2024-03-26T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26348"},"modified":"2024-03-26T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:40:24","slug":"life-without-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26348","title":{"rendered":"Life without sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like if we never slept. I don&#8217;t mean lack of sleep, but rather no need for it.<\/p>\n<p>We were wide awake 24 hours a day, we would never dream. We would never be in need of a hotel room for the night when traveling.<\/p>\n<p>All of our signifiers would be completely jumbled. The meaning of day and night would not be the same at all.<\/p>\n<p>The sun and the moon would be equal and balanced in their significance, rather than representing a kind of Yin and Yang. I suspect that society as we know it would be quite different.<\/p>\n<p>But how exactly? That is the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would life be like if we never slept. I don&#8217;t mean lack of sleep, but rather no need for it. We were wide awake 24 hours a day, we would never dream. We would never be in need of a hotel room for the night when traveling. All of our signifiers would be completely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life without sleep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26349,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26348\/revisions\/26349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}