{"id":33497,"date":"2025-02-16T12:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-go-to-bed-maybe-science-has-the-answer-emma-beddington\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:38:25","slug":"why-is-it-so-hard-to-go-to-bed-maybe-science-has-the-answer-emma-beddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-go-to-bed-maybe-science-has-the-answer-emma-beddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so hard to go to bed? Maybe science has the answer | Emma Beddington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m an intractable bedtime procrastinator. Why do the sensible thing when I can just lie on the couch, phone in hand, however exhausted I am?<\/p>\n<p>This says nothing good about me, but when I read that Oxford quantum physicists had made an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2025-02-06-first-distributed-quantum-algorithm-brings-quantum-supercomputers-closer\">exciting step<\/a> towards teleportation, my first thought was: \u201cWill I live long enough for science to teleport me from the sofa into bed at night?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an intractable bedtime procrastinator. However exhausted I am, once I achieve couch horizontality, bed seems pointless. With a heated blanket and the whole internet in my hand, why do the sensible thing when I can do what feels good right now?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/16\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-go-to-bed-maybe-science-has-the-answer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m an intractable bedtime procrastinator. Why do the sensible thing when I can just lie on the couch, phone in hand, however exhausted I am? This says nothing good about me, but when I read that Oxford quantum physicists had made an exciting step towards teleportation, my first thought was: \u201cWill I live long enough &#8230; <a title=\"Why is it so hard to go to bed? Maybe science has the answer | Emma Beddington\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-go-to-bed-maybe-science-has-the-answer-emma-beddington\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why is it so hard to go to bed? Maybe science has the answer | Emma Beddington\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}