{"id":4697,"date":"2014-04-24T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2014-04-24T23:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:47:50","slug":"my-eyes-are-fluttering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"My eyes are fluttering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I would hate to admit, I do love this feeling I get as I approach bedtime.  The weight and fluttering of my eyelids.  My mind tries to keep alert in making sure my phone is charged and I have activated the button on my Fitbit.  Just those two last things&#8230;maybe one more thing&#8230;turn off light&#8230;maybe just three more things&#8230;and then I shift n my bed with my belly against the mattress, my head in my awkward side position that I have done many years, and let my mind drift off to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because it&#8217;s that moment when everything can come to a halt.  An appropriate end to the day.  Where I can tell the world, this annoying demand from Facebook, twitter, email, whatever&#8230;.is told <i>I AM NOT AVAILABLE FOR AT LEAST 8 HOURS<\/i>.  I have rules in my life that communication unless I choose to initiate does not occur until 9 AM.  And this is the divide of silence.  Where silence is a choice that I deliberately make.  Letting the words swirl and swirl in my head until they settle ready to spit out when I open my eyes and place my fingers on the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>You see, my favorite drug is sleep.  And every day, I hunger for just one more drop.  Every night, I crave for its sweet seduction into a dreamful, imaginary place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I would hate to admit, I do love this feeling I get as I approach bedtime. The weight and fluttering of my eyelids. My mind tries to keep alert in making sure my phone is charged and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}