{"id":1774,"date":"2026-06-11T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:00:15","slug":"when-to-sleep-when-the-sun-never-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"The midnight sun conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you sleep when the sun never sets? That\u2019s what people in the Arctic Norwegian city of Troms\u00f8 have to deal with. After no sunlight at all between late November and mid-January, the sun never sets from late May to late June. So what does this annual solar yoyo-ing do to people there? Here is my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BEVANGER-Midnight-sun.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you sleep when the sun never sets? That\u2019s what people in the Arctic Norwegian city of Troms\u00f8 have to deal with. After no sunlight at all between late November and mid-January, the sun never sets from late May to late June. So what does this annual solar yoyo-ing do to people there? Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Midnight-sun-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}