{"id":868,"date":"2013-08-07T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2013-08-07T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:12:12","slug":"banish-the-blue-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/banish-the-blue-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Banish the Blue LED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2013-08-night-affect-mood.html\">another reason<\/a> to ban the blue LED:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a study involving hamsters, researchers found that blue light had the worst effects on mood-related measures, followed closely by white light. (<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/173763\/\">Via<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad the blue LED was finally invented, and I&#8217;m sure my life is better for it in countless ways. But that doesn&#8217;t mean it has to be slapped onto every gadget in my house. I&#8217;ve got a USB charger that I have to keep in the basement, because it has the brightest single LED (blue of course) I&#8217;ve ever seen, and if I use it in the bedroom, or even in the hallway, it affects my sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has discovered another reason to ban the blue LED: In a study involving hamsters, researchers found that blue light had the worst effects on mood-related measures, followed closely by white light. (Via.) I&#8217;m glad the blue LED was finally invented, and I&#8217;m sure my life is better for it in countless ways. But that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[777,386,771,606],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-blue","tag-computers-2","tag-gadget","tag-leds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-e0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}