{"id":63748,"date":"2026-04-25T05:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63748"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:27:40","slug":"bad-bad-bad-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63748","title":{"rendered":"Bad, Bad, Bad Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Trial Moon<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat gratefuls: Visiting Angels. Starts Tuesday. Xerostomia. Artemis. Shadow. Pole Star. Tesla. BMW. Volkswagen. Bolt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rene Good. Alex Pretti. Say their names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sparks of Joy and Awe: Calories<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kavannah: Contentment, Histakop. I have enough. Friends. Family. Money. Health. House. Help<\/p>\n<p>Tarot: paused<\/p>\n<p>One brief shining: Lay on right side. No. Left side. No. Stomach. Not very long. On Back. A little longer. Sleep. Broken. Insufficient. Frustrating. Annoying. Prednisone at the root? I don&#8217;t know. Three new drugs this week. Prednisone the most likely culprit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know people who&#8217;ve trouble sleeping for decades. My desperation after four nights. Helps me get it. Right now I&#8217;m half-awake, half-aware and thinking of a nap. At 5 AM!<\/p>\n<p>My mind has not felt clear. As if it has a layer of schmutz between its work and my day. I don&#8217;t like to do anything complicated when I feel like that. Mentally disabled for a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I did hire Visiting Angels.\u00a0 Tuesdays and Fridays. 10-2pm. Don&#8217;t know who is coming yet. Excited to get this set up and working.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fading. So this ends here. At least I got something down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Trial Moon Shabbat gratefuls: Visiting Angels. Starts Tuesday. Xerostomia. Artemis. Shadow. Pole Star. Tesla. BMW. Volkswagen. Bolt. Rene Good. Alex Pretti. Say their names. Sparks of Joy and Awe: Calories &nbsp; Kavannah: Contentment, Histakop. I have enough. Friends. Family. Money. Health. House. Help Tarot: paused One brief shining: Lay on right side. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad, Bad, Bad Sleep<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4417,4416,127,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-pain","category-cancer","category-health","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63750,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748\/revisions\/63750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}