{"id":1906,"date":"2012-12-07T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:50:18","slug":"analects-of-the-core-172-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/12\/07\/analects-of-the-core-172-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Homer on sleep&#8217;s regenerative power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a tribute to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty near the semester&#8217;s end, here is today&#8217;s analect in celebration of Sleep&#8217;s regenerative power:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man in a distant field, no hearthfires near, will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself, while over him Athena showered sleep that his distress should end, and soon, soon. In quiet sleep she sealed his cherished eyes <em>(Odyssey, Book V).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a tribute to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty near the semester&#8217;s end, here is today&#8217;s analect in celebration of Sleep&#8217;s regenerative power: A man in a distant field, no hearthfires near, will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; so in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,2534],"tags":[37395,37394,29503,6367,326,37392,37397,4059,3919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}