{"id":108,"date":"2015-01-05T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-01-05T22:55:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:55:33","slug":"why-our-phones-and-ipads-are-wrecking-our-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"How phones and iPads are wrecking our sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleep. It&#8217;s as important to us as food and exercise. If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ll do (almost) anything for an uninterrupted 8 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us don&#8217;t get enough sleep. There&#8217;s lots of advice out there about sleep hygiene as a strategy to sleep better (if you&#8217;ve never heard the term before, you might want to click <a href=\"http:\/\/healthysleep.med.harvard.edu\/healthy\/getting\/overcoming\/tips\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s only recently been understood just how bad blue light is for our sleep. Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/12\/23\/reading-before-bed_n_6372828.html?ir=Gay+Voices&amp;ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>\u00a0to understand why, and shut down your devices an hour before bed. Pick up a non light-emitting e-reader or one of those vintage readers (a book!) instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleep. It&#8217;s as important to us as food and exercise. If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ll do (almost) anything for an uninterrupted 8 hours. Many of us don&#8217;t get enough sleep. There&#8217;s lots of advice out there about sleep hygiene as a strategy to sleep better (if you&#8217;ve never heard the term before, you might want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/?p=108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How phones and iPads are wrecking our sleep<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[60,58,59],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain","tag-blue-screens","tag-sleep","tag-sleep-hygiene"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OZI7-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farzanadoctorpsychotherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}