{"id":10896,"date":"2007-10-11T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/11\/blindness\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:36:05","slug":"blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/11\/blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still waiting on my new spectacles; it looks like another thirty-six hours of staring through lenses covered in splotches. Had I opted for just a new set of prescription glasses and frames as per my habit every four years, relief would be mine already. I broke with routine, though and bought two pairs&#8211;daily wear and sports.<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the Harry Potter round rims. Seventeen years was enough. With a few differences, the new daily wear glasses resemble these:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/glasses\/nike.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Made by Nike, the bendable ear pieces attach to the glass, and the lenses are rimless. I opted for a single piece nosepad, which are typically more comfortable than two floating attachments. Also, instead of the oval shaped lenses above, I selected the mezzi cut, which are rectangular. The whole package is very European.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the daily wear glasses are ready. It&#8217;s my sports glasses that are taking more time. But it&#8217;s worth it. These babies are air tight, with molded leather interior padding and rated for skydiving and motorcycle riding.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a model in the same vein, though mine have gray frames with 25 percent rose tint.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/glasses\/diving.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Da, Detka!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still waiting on my new spectacles; it looks like another thirty-six hours of staring through lenses covered in splotches. Had I opted for just a new set of prescription glasses and frames as per my habit every four years, relief would be mine already. I broke with routine, though and bought two pairs&#8211;daily wear and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skydiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}