{"id":820,"date":"2003-04-10T03:34:54","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T03:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2020-08-20T03:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T03:35:14","slug":"mattress-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/04\/10\/mattress-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattress Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our futon mattress hasn&#8217;t seemed as comfortable as usual lately. Both Lisa and I agreed that it was enough with the stiffness and uncomfortable sleeping: it was time for a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After some research, Lisa suggested trying a mattress topper, something that you can strap over an underperforming mattress to make it more comfortable &#8211; rather than replacing the whole thing. One brand in particular caught our fancy: one made with isotonic foam, apparently designed for NASA G-force couches, which conforms to the body and provides even support, eliminating pressure points etc etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day it arrived, and we followed the instructions, unfolding it and laying it out on the spare bed, letting it regain its natural shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It felt exactly like pizza dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of days later &#8211; this evening &#8211; we remade our bed, installing our new super-science layer over our tired, retired futon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Result: Extreme comfort! It&#8217;s the closest I&#8217;m ever going to be to being an astronaut, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our futon mattress hasn&#8217;t seemed as comfortable as usual lately. Both Lisa and I agreed that it was enough with the stiffness and uncomfortable sleeping: it was time for a change. After some research, Lisa suggested trying a mattress topper, something that you can strap over an underperforming mattress to make it more comfortable &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}