{"id":20751,"date":"2019-01-24T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20751"},"modified":"2019-01-24T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:08:09","slug":"the-usefulness-of-jet-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20751","title":{"rendered":"The usefulness of jet lag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have been back from Europe &#8212; which is six hours ahead of NY &#8212; I have found myself growing very tired early in the evening. I am writing this at around 7pm NY time, and already I am feeling quite sleepy.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, every morning I find myself waking up at around 5am. None of this is a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to be a lot more clear-headed in the mornings, so these last few days have been <i>enormously<\/i> productive. Fortunately I had the foresight not to schedule anything in the evenings these first few days that I&#8217;m back from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>So when I leave the lab each day I simply sink into blissful slumber. Then I wake up bright and early the next morning and get enormous amounts of work done.<\/p>\n<p>I realize this state won&#8217;t last. In another day or so my body will adjust to the shifted pattern of sunlight. But while it lasts, it sure is convenient!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have been back from Europe &#8212; which is six hours ahead of NY &#8212; I have found myself growing very tired early in the evening. I am writing this at around 7pm NY time, and already I am feeling quite sleepy. Conversely, every morning I find myself waking up at around 5am. None &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The usefulness of jet lag&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20752,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20751\/revisions\/20752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}