{"id":13166,"date":"2024-04-01T23:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:15:26","slug":"god-bless-weighted-blankets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/01\/god-bless-weighted-blankets\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Weighted Blankets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/how-my-weekend-plans-changed-after-i-got-a-weighted-blanket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How My Weekend Plans Changed After I Got a Weighted Blanket<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/claire-friedman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claire Friedman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/5c9113cbef56b82d123314c2\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/Friedman-Weighted-Blanket.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a woman lying down under a blanket.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photograph by Aleksandar Nakic \/ Getty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weekend No. 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plan:<\/strong>&nbsp;Visit well-reviewed Chinese Scholar\u2019s Garden on Staten Island; return boots that don\u2019t fit; bake lemon-ricotta scones for potluck brunch on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reality:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bought weighted blanket and cancelled plans with friends to try it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weekend No. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plan:<\/strong>&nbsp;Cook three of ten dishes that made Bobby Flay\u2019s career; go see a movie; visit Grandma to record some of her incredible stories for posterity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reality:<\/strong>&nbsp;Spent forty-eight hours under blanket watching \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d to test out blanket\u2019s anxiety-reducing capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weekend No. 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plan:<\/strong>&nbsp;Go to Becca\u2019s birthday drinks, Elexa\u2019s housewarming party,&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;Clare\u2019s baby shower!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reality:<\/strong>\u00a0Lay under blanket playing Words with Friends with strangers while keeping every muscle except for thumb muscles perfectly still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/how-my-weekend-plans-changed-after-i-got-a-weighted-blanket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Yorker How My Weekend Plans Changed After I Got a Weighted Blanket By\u00a0Claire Friedman Weekend No. 1 Plan:&nbsp;Visit well-reviewed Chinese Scholar\u2019s Garden on Staten Island; return boots that don\u2019t fit; bake lemon-ricotta scones for potluck brunch on Sunday. Reality:&nbsp;Bought weighted blanket and cancelled plans with friends to try it out. Weekend No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}