{"id":9025,"date":"2015-08-17T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2015-08-16T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T14:25:27","slug":"quickly-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=9025","title":{"rendered":"Quickly to Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond E. Feist&#8217;s <em>Magician<\/em> series has always been one of my favorite sets of books. I&#8217;ve read each of the early books of the series so many times that I practically know them by heart. But there are still lines that grab my attention every time.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them would hardly be noticed by other readers. For example, there are several times when Feist wrote something like this: &#8220;He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.&#8221; They are handy lines that convey clearly the idea of extreme fatigue, but they&#8217;re not particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>They interest me, though, because I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;ve never fallen asleep so easily. It always takes me a long time to fall asleep, often longer if I&#8217;m extremely tired. So I&#8217;m fascinated by (and desirous of) the ability to fall asleep quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever fallen asleep as soon as your head hit the pillow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond E. Feist&#8217;s Magician series has always been one of my favorite sets of books. I&#8217;ve read each of the early books of the series so many times that I practically know them by heart. But there are still lines &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=9025\">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":[],"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11051,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions\/11051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}