{"id":13220,"date":"2026-02-19T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:05:27","slug":"is-napping-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/02\/is-napping-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Is napping necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/206784\/donald-trump-sleep-board-peace-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">News item:<\/a>  &#8220;President Trump has once again dozed off on camera at his own event. Footage shows Trump looking extremely drowsy at his inaugural &#8216;Board of Peace&#8217; meeting on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, those who oppose Donald Trump will make fun of this, but many health care professionals advise that napping is beneficial. Take, for example, a webpage titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlouischildrens.org\/health-resources\/pulse\/napping-necessary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Is Napping Necessary?&#8221;<\/a> found on the St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital website (I&#8217;ve adapted it slightly):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe449a37b111d929580f294df7305053\">&#8220;Napping daily can be beneficial for your president, working wonders for both his mood and yours\u2026. Naps are valuable and if they are given up they should be replaced with a structured quiet time. Presidents need this time to re-group, as do their countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-937x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-937x1024.jpeg 937w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-275x300.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-768x839.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-1406x1536.jpeg 1406w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-1875x2048.jpeg 1875w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime-1200x1311.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NapTime.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News item: &#8220;President Trump has once again dozed off on camera at his own event. Footage shows Trump looking extremely drowsy at his inaugural &#8216;Board of Peace&#8217; meeting on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.&#8221; As usual, those who oppose Donald Trump will make fun of this, but many health care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/02\/is-napping-necessary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is napping necessary?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[724],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-old-white-guys-in-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13224,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}