{"id":1740,"date":"2018-03-02T01:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T03:47:27","slug":"lawrence-presents-abc-catalysts-sleep-doco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"LAWRENCE PRESENTS ABC CATALYST&#8217;S SLEEP DOCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and human guinea pig Lawrence donated his mind and body for science in an all new episode of ABC&#8217;s science program Catalyst. He presents SLEEP MATTERS a hour-long documentary about the science and importance of getting a good night&#8217;s shut eye. The documentary includes encounters with sleep scientists, researchers, tired late-night DJ and elite athletes. Perhaps a highlight (or lowlight in his sanity!) involved Lawrence participating in an extreme sleep deprivation experiment, trapped inside a Monash Uni laboratory with no clocks, no windows and no iphone. Then to look at the effects on his brain and body, straight away, he had to perform a new stand up routine at a packed comedy club (written whilst half asleep in the lab)! Did he die on-stage (in comedy terms)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/catalyst-4-pics-e1544238549415-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1747 size-full\" title=\"catalyst 4 pics\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/catalyst-4-pics-e1544238549415-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/catalyst-4-pics-e1544238549415-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/catalyst-4-pics-e1544238549415-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/catalyst-4-pics-e1544238549415-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Sleep for, what happens if you go without it and what can you do to improve it? It aired this Tues 27th on ABC TV<\/p>\n<p>Full episode is now online on iView: <a href=\"http:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/programs\/catalyst\/SC1602H017S00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and human guinea pig Lawrence donated his mind and body for science in an all new episode of ABC&#8217;s science program Catalyst. He presents SLEEP MATTERS a hour-long documentary about the science and importance of getting a good night&#8217;s shut eye. The documentary includes encounters with sleep scientists, researchers, tired late-night DJ and elite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrenceleung.comedymanagement.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}