{"id":675,"date":"2014-11-10T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2014-11-09T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:51:01","slug":"go-to-sleep-darling-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/motivational-monday\/go-to-sleep-darling-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Go to sleep, darling brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brain-sleep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-676\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brain-sleep-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"brain-sleep\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brain-sleep-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brain-sleep-624x464.jpg 624w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brain-sleep.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can&#8217;t tell you how often this happens to me. Of course, sleep is forgotten while I lie in the dark and sift through the &#8220;what ifs&#8221; and &#8220;that could work&#8221; possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>A couple times, I promised myself that I would remember my brilliant stroke of creativity in the morning, and went on to dreamland. But when morning came, I&#8217;d forgotten everything. Let me tell you, that&#8217;s the worst!<\/p>\n<p>Having learned my painful lesson, I now write it all down&#8211;legibly. (Not being able to decipher my own handwriting is just about as bad than forgetting the idea.)<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the idea will be spelled out in its full glory when I wake up is huge relief, and both my muse and I rest much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time, and wishing you brilliant ideas and a pen and paper or device to jot them down,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0Ann<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Connect with me on my Facebook Author page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnnRothAuthorPage\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnnRothAuthorPage<\/a><br \/>\nFollow me on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/@Ann_Roth\">@Ann_Roth<\/a><br \/>\nStop by my website: <a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\">www.annroth.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how often this happens to me. Of course, sleep is forgotten while I lie in the dark and sift through the &#8220;what ifs&#8221; and &#8220;that could work&#8221; possibilities. A couple times, I promised myself that I would remember my brilliant stroke of creativity in the morning, and went on to dreamland. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[4,270],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational-monday","tag-ann-roth","tag-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}