{"id":1960,"date":"2012-12-14T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:54:31","slug":"analects-of-the-core-174-cervantes-on-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/12\/14\/analects-of-the-core-174-cervantes-on-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Cervantes on sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty preparing their battlements for the approaching finals&#8217; week, and relating to the work of CC201, here is today&#8217;s analect from\u00a0Cervantes&#8217; <em>Don Quixote:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All I know is that while I\u2019m asleep, I\u2019m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories \u2014 and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There\u2019s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I\u2019ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there\u2019s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty preparing their battlements for the approaching finals&#8217; week, and relating to the work of CC201, here is today&#8217;s analect from\u00a0Cervantes&#8217; Don Quixote: All I know is that while I\u2019m asleep, I\u2019m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories \u2014 and bless the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,2534,3856],"tags":[37432,37428,37427,6136,4795,29485,37430,4059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}