{"id":996598,"date":"2026-03-06T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996598"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:44:31","slug":"young-night-owls-on-the-rise-in-kerala-study-rings-alarm-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/young-night-owls-on-the-rise-in-kerala-study-rings-alarm-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Young night owls on the rise in Kerala, study rings alarm bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Uncovering a concerning development, the State Youth Commission has found that over 86% of youngsters aged 18-25 are sleeping late, drifting from the concept of sleep being a biological need. Primarily attributed to excessive gadget usage, the study also found that the quality of sleep among youngsters is also dipping, with 67% of them going to sleep after 11pm, and 29.6% of them sleeping for six hours or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Uncovering a concerning development, the State Youth Commission has found that over 86% of youngsters aged 18-25 are sleeping late, drifting from the concept of sleep being a biological need. Primarily attributed to excessive gadget usage, the study also found that the quality of sleep among youngsters is also dipping, with 67% of them going to sleep after 11pm, and 29.6% of them sleeping for six hours or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}