Thank you @ScruffR
I woke up at 5 this morning realizing this code was for the Core. 
Guess I think better in the morning than late at night.
That being said, is there something similar for the Photon? Right now I have a minimum of a 3 second delay before calling sleep and every second saved is helpful. Any less than 3 seconds results in publishing failing more often than I’d like.
I realize that a call to particle.publish returns a success code but what I don’t know is what this means. Is it success, the event made it to the cloud, or success, the event message left via wifi, or success, event message sent to the Wifi chip for processing.