{"id":63751,"date":"2026-04-26T05:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63751"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:32:54","slug":"sleep-wherefore-art-thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63751","title":{"rendered":"Sleep, wherefore art thou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Trial Moon<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat gratefuls: Alan. Shadow. New meds. Sleepless on Shadow Mountain. Peanut Butter. Dan&#8217;s honey. Egg burrito.<\/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: Mystery<\/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: Sleep difficulties continue. Working on it. A little pole-axed this morning. Numb. Weary. I do not function well when sleep leaves the house. Mental energy plummets. Tasks go by the way. I feel abandoned on a strip of bare reality.\u00a0 No street lights. No traffic. No people. Me and the need to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not loving the impact of this last week on Ancientrails. Decreased mental energy. Decreasing overall energy. Hard to sustain the most regular and predictable part of my life for the last twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying something new for the sleeping. Going to be fifteen minutes later each night until l hit 8:30 or 9:00. If that works, maybe I&#8217;ll be back\u00a0 soon.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, my eyes slowly close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Trial Moon Shabbat gratefuls: Alan. Shadow. New meds. Sleepless on Shadow Mountain. Peanut Butter. Dan&#8217;s honey. Egg burrito. Rene Good. Alex Pretti. Say their names. Sparks of Joy and Awe: Mystery &nbsp; Kavannah: Contentment, Histakop. I have enough. Friends. Family. Money. Health. House. Help Tarot: paused One brief shining: Sleep difficulties continue. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sleep, wherefore art thou<\/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":[127,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751","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=63751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63752,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751\/revisions\/63752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}