{"id":317,"date":"2010-08-31T04:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T10:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-08-31T04:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T10:36:54","slug":"jet-lag-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/jet-lag-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Lag is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dsc03394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-318\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dsc03394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are finally back in Changzhou. \u00a0This is the scene we woke up to this morning as we looked out of our bedroom window. \u00a0It has been raining for the past few weeks with more rain in the forecast for the next week. \u00a0The rain gives the bamboo trees and the garden gazebo a clean look. \u00a0It&#8217;s a relaxing scene and that is just what we need at this point.<\/p>\n<p>A long flight half way around the world is tiring, especially if one finds it difficult to sleep on a plane. \u00a0Even if one can sleep, the body has a lot of adjusting to do in order to retrain so that day becomes night and night becomes day.<\/p>\n<p>Our strategy is to force ourselves to stay awake during the day hours &#8211; no napping &#8211; so that we can adapt more quickly. \u00a0Giving in to a nap in the daytime doesn&#8217;t allow the body to make the adjustment to the new time zone as quickly. \u00a0A bit of suffering now is better than dragging it out for better than a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are finally back in Changzhou. \u00a0This is the scene we woke up to this morning as we looked out of our bedroom window. \u00a0It has been raining for the past few weeks with more rain in the forecast for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/jet-lag-is-real\/\">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":[10,28,33,122,230],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bamboo","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-jet-lag","tag-tranquil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}