{"id":85612,"date":"2019-10-16T18:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85612"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:53:27","slug":"smh-the-frightening-effects-of-the-phone-messages-waking-us-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85612","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) The &#8216;frightening&#8217; effects of the phone messages waking us at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone alerts that interrupt our sleep may have serious knock-on effects for our waking lives, leaving us more prone to car accidents, mistakes at work and poor mental health.<\/p>\n<p>One in five Australians is being woken by texts and social media alerts, or waking up to send them multiple times a week, new research suggests. For one in 20, it&#8217;s every night.<\/p>\n<p>When that alert sounds, &#8220;the temptation to look is enormous&#8221;, lead researcher Sarah Appleton at Flinders University&#8217;s Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a really difficult problem to deal with because it&#8217;s so pervasive and ingrained in our population,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/the-frightening-effects-of-the-phone-messages-waking-us-at-night-20191016-p5314z.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The &#8216;frightening&#8217; effects of the phone messages waking us at night | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kaubo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kaubo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJ9ApjT93i\">https:\/\/t.co\/JJ9ApjT93i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smh\/status\/1184602518988435461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone alerts that interrupt our sleep may have serious knock-on effects for our waking lives, leaving us more prone to car accidents, mistakes at work and poor mental health. One in five Australians is being woken by texts and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85612\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85615,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85612\/revisions\/85615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}