{"id":57581,"date":"2024-09-22T00:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57581"},"modified":"2024-09-22T00:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T00:03:32","slug":"jet-lag-isnt-permanent-but-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57581","title":{"rendered":"Jet lag isn&#8217;t permanent &#8230; but still"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A strange notion came over me yesterday morning, one that suggested I had whipped the jet lag that plagued me since my return from a nine-day trip to Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me. It seems to be rallying inside this 74-year-old body of mine.<\/p>\n<p>This is worth mentioning briefly because in all the international travel I have enjoyed over many years, jet lag hardly ever has been a problem I cannot shake.<\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to attribute this stubborn case of jet lag to a couple of factors.<\/p>\n<p>One is that I am generally sleep-deprived. I have had trouble getting a good night&#8217;s sleep for the past three or four years. Therefore, when I should be sleeping on an airplane &#8230; I am not! Among the many ways I heard to fend off jet lag, this one makes the most sense: Try to sleep on a jetliner when it&#8217;s bedtime at home.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next time.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor is uncomfortable seats in the poor man&#8217;s economy class ticket I purchased. Don&#8217;t let the airlines fool you: Economy class seats are not comfy. The discomfort I felt on both long-distance legs of my journey has compelled me to declare that any future international airborne travel will be on a jetliner equipped with business class.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to budget for it, plan ahead, because I know the biz class seats can cost me an arm and both legs.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; I am fighting jet leg at this moment as I conclude this brief post.<\/p>\n<p>What now? I&#8217;ll finish it. Post it.\u00a0 Then I&#8217;ll take <em>another<\/em> nap. I can whip this.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange notion came over me yesterday morning, one that suggested I had whipped the jet lag that plagued me since my return from a nine-day trip to Greece. Silly me. It seems to be rallying inside this 74-year-old body of mine. This is worth mentioning briefly because in all the international travel I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jet lag isn&#8217;t permanent &#8230; but still<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1996,10387],"class_list":["post-57581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-greece","tag-jet-lag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57582,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions\/57582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}