{"id":6223,"date":"2010-05-17T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2010-05-19T00:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:35:27","slug":"is-being-asleep-being-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/is-being-asleep-being-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Being Asleep Being Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/144.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/144.jpg?resize=104%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/144.jpg?w=104&amp;ssl=1 104w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/144.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you rather sleep longer and  live longer,<br \/>\ndue to having improved health,<br \/>\nor sleep less and have more  waking hours,<br \/>\nand in effect live and do more?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Am not sure myself,<br \/>\nthough I&#8217;m inclining towards the latter.<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\nWhat do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The enlightened sleep little, if at all,<br \/>\nprobably because they have better control of their energy,<br \/>\nand because there is so much they can do to help others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heedfulness is the deathless path,<br \/>\nheedlessness, the path to death.<br \/>\nThose who are heedful do not die,<br \/>\nheedless are like the dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dhammapada (v.21)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nRather Stay Awake<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/04\/rather-stay-awake\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/04\/rather-stay-awake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you rather sleep longer and live longer, due to having improved health, or sleep less and have more waking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,89],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-death","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}