{"id":1118,"date":"2009-06-14T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/my-kids-perfected-cold-fusion.html"},"modified":"2009-06-14T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T12:13:00","slug":"my-kids-perfected-cold-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/my-kids-perfected-cold-fusion.html","title":{"rendered":"My Kids Perfected Cold Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences has said that based on a recent study, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8090730.stm\">the best way to solve a problem is to sleep on it<\/a>.  Apparently that active dreamy REM sleep is essential to assimilating new knowledge into previous experience, fostering new connections and insights.<\/p>\n<p>Minimally, it would be good to have a copy of this study handy when the boss finds you napping in your lab.  Still, while the results of this study make some intuitive sense, I&#8217;m plagued by the question of why my kids haven&#8217;t yet cured the common cold, figured out the whole Mid-East debacle, or fashioned a light saber.  Given the amount of sleep teens get on the weekend, any given Saturday or Sunday should be just chock full of innovation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences has said that based on a recent study, the best way to solve a problem<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/my-kids-perfected-cold-fusion.html\" title=\"Read My Kids Perfected Cold Fusion\">Read more &raquo;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}