{"id":744,"date":"2003-06-24T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:35","slug":"night-owls-vs-the-early-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"night owls vs. the early birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span>Are you a night owl late for your day job again? Tell your boss to blame your genes.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> British researchers from the University of Surrey report in <em>Sleep,<\/em> the  journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research  Society, that they have found a link between a person&#8217;s preference for  nights or days and a gene called Per3. The gene is involved in regulating the body&#8217;s internal clock and comes  in two forms, long and short. The researchers took cell samples from  people&#8217;s cheeks and analyzed their DNA and then compared the results to  questionnaires given earlier that helped identify the subjects as  morning or evening people. Early risers were more likely to have the  long version of the gene, whereas night owls were more likely to sport  the shorter. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/24\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a night owl late for your day job again? Tell your boss to blame your genes. British researchers from the University of Surrey report in Sleep, the journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}