{"id":6270,"date":"2009-02-16T07:48:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:47:32","slug":"non-alcoholic-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/02\/16\/non-alcoholic-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Alcoholic Hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost a year ago, I got a nasty stomach flu bug<\/a> that knocked me out of commission for a weekend. One of the (voluntary) lasting side effects was that as long as I’d spent a weekend drinking nothing but water and non-caffeinated sodas (ginger ale and 7-up to try to calm my stomach), we decided to just keep the trend going, and I cut caffeinated drinks out of my routine. This puts me at almost a full year without caffeine.<\/p>\n

Since this is a three-day weekend, I went out to the Mercury last night. I had my usual drink — a Malibu Rum and Coke (a very slight bit of caffeine in these, yes, but not like drinking a full glass of Coke would give me). Once that was done, I figured I’d have something non-alcoholic for the rest of the evening, and without even thinking about it, just asked the bartender for a “soda.”<\/p>\n

Which, of course, was a big ol’ glass of Coke.<\/p>\n

Next time I do this, I must<\/em> remember to specify 7-Up. I didn’t think about it at the time, but I’m in the midst of what I’m deeming a ‘caffeine hangover’: while I was tired enough when I got home at 2am to fall asleep, I was wired enough that I tossed and turned, woke up numerous times, and haven’t been able to drift back off to sleep since the last time I woke up at about 6:30am. I’m exhausted, but my one-year-caffeine-deprived body’s obviously having a field day with Coke.<\/p>\n

Ugh. Unpleasant. I’m just hoping that it wears through by this afternoon so I can flake out for a nap at some point. Failing that…well, I can be damn<\/em> sure that I’m going to pass right out tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ugh. Unpleasant. I’m just hoping that it wears through by this afternoon so I can flake out for a nap at some point. Failing that…well, I can be _damn_ sure that I’m going to pass right out tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}