{"id":1254,"date":"2008-01-06T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2008-01-06T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T08:58:00","slug":"sleepless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2008\/01\/06\/sleepless\/","title":{"rendered":"sleepless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>having a bit of insomnia.  not a rare occurrence for me, but one that&#8217;s not so common anymore, either.<\/p>\n<p>i am a night owl, prowling around the house and poking around.  all is quiet and i feel a kind of wicked delight in being awake while i know i really should be in bed.  like those nights when i was a kid and i would stay up reading long beyond my bedtime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>speaking of reading, here&#8217;s a 3 question literary quiz from <a href=\"http:\/\/pilgrimgirl.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/mantra-for-new-year.html\">Rafe Esquith<\/a>.  he says this quiz would do away with all of the standardized testing that plagues education today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Have you ever secretly read under your desk in school because the teacher was boring and you were dying to finish the book you were reading?<\/p>\n<p>2) Have you ever been scolded for reading at the dinner table?<\/p>\n<p>3) Have you ever read secretly under the covers after being told to go to bed?<\/p>\n<p>*My bonus question: Have you ever been teased by your parents <a href=\"http:\/\/pilgrimgirl.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/reading.html\">for reading your books instead of touring the Eiffel Tower<\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so&#8230;did you pass or fail my little quiz?  and tell me, what books are on your nightstand right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>having a bit of insomnia. not a rare occurrence for me, but one that&#8217;s not so common anymore, either. i am a night owl, prowling around the house and poking around. all is quiet and i feel a kind of wicked delight in being awake while i know i really should be in bed. like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-deep-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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