{"id":3137,"date":"2011-07-22T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2018-08-07T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:40:22","slug":"la-siesta-deporte-nacional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/la-siesta-deporte-nacional\/","title":{"rendered":"La siesta, deporte nacional."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a1Hola amigos!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hoy vengo un poco dormida a\u00fan, porque acabo de practicar uno de mis deportes nacionales favoritos: \u00a1la siesta!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Palabra espa\u00f1ola que proviene del lat\u00edn \u201chora sexta\u201d, hace referencia al tiempo en que se tomaba un descanso de las labores cotidianas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">No s\u00e9 cu\u00e1ntos de vosotros ten\u00e9is la posibilidad de disfrutarla, pero estoy segura de que al menos hab\u00e9is o\u00eddo hablar de ella, ya que es una costumbre muy espa\u00f1ola, sobre todo en verano. \u00a0Para aquellos que todav\u00eda no sep\u00e1is qu\u00e9 es, os explico en qu\u00e9 consiste: se trata de descansar unos minutos, entre veinte y treinta, tras la comida. No se trata solo de costumbre espa\u00f1ola, sino que tiene una explicaci\u00f3n biol\u00f3gica: el descenso de la sangre al sistema digestivo tras comer provoca una cierta somnolencia. El almuerzo es la comida m\u00e1s fuerte en la dieta mediterr\u00e1nea, por lo que es normal sentir sue\u00f1o tras terminar de comer el postre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Los beneficios de la siesta son tan numerosos que la NASA ha sido la \u00faltima instituci\u00f3n en publicar un estudio sobre ellos: disminuye el riesgo cardiovascular, libera tensiones, ayuda a aumentar la concentraci\u00f3n, previene el estr\u00e9s, ayuda a mejorar la memoria y el aprendizaje, y permite continuar la jornada de trabajo con m\u00e1s energ\u00edas. Sin embargo, no debe alargarse demasiado, ya que eso podr\u00eda alterar el reloj biol\u00f3gico natural, y provocar insomnio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Como veis, tras terminar una dura ma\u00f1ana de trabajo, y llenar bien la tripa, nada mejor que una buena siesta para seguir disfrutando con energ\u00eda de la tarde. Por cierto, tambi\u00e9n tenemos la \u201csiesta del carnero\u201d, o &#8220;siesta del can\u00f3nigo\u201d, esta para los m\u00e1s desocupados, ya que es la que se hace justo antes de comer. \u00bfAlguien se anima a echar una siesta?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fotos_de_sergio\/415471721\/\">Masternet82<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hello friends!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today I\u2019m here a bit sleepy, because I have just practised one of my favourite national sports: the siesta!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A Spanish word, which comes from the Latin expression &#8220;sixth hour&#8221;, it refers to the time in which people took a rest from their daily labours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I don\u2019t know how many of you have the possibility of enjoying it, but I am sure that at least you have heard something about it, since it is a very Spanish custom, mainly in the summer. For those who don\u2019t know what the \u201csiesta\u201d is, I will explain it: it is the action of sleeping for a few minutes, between twenty and thirty, after having lunch. It is not only a Spanish habit, but it has a biological explanation: the diversion of blood flow down to the digestive system after eating provokes a little drowsiness. Lunch is the main meal in the Mediterranean diet, so it is usual to be sleepy after eating dessert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The benefits of the nap are so numerous that the NASA has been the last institution to publish a study about it: it lowers cardiovascular risk, releases and prevents stress, it helps increase concentration, as well as our memory and learning, and it allows us to go on with our working day with more energy. Nevertheless, it must not be much longer, because it might alter the biological clock, and provoke insomnia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As you can see, after ending a hard morning at work, and filling our tummy, nothing better than a good siesta to continue enjoying our evening full of energy. By the way, we also have the \u201cSheep siesta &#8220;, or \u201cthe Clergyman siesta&#8221;, this one for the not so busy ones, since it is the siesta done just before eating. Does anyone fancy having a siesta?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Hola amigos! Hoy vengo un poco dormida a\u00fan, porque acabo de practicar uno de mis deportes nacionales favoritos: \u00a1la siesta! Palabra espa\u00f1ola que proviene del lat\u00edn \u201chora sexta\u201d, hace referencia al tiempo en que se tomaba un descanso de las labores cotidianas. No s\u00e9 cu\u00e1ntos de vosotros ten\u00e9is la posibilidad de disfrutarla, pero estoy segura&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/la-siesta-deporte-nacional\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[913],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-traditions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/11830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}