{"id":11426,"date":"2014-06-23T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2014-06-23T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:51:23","slug":"monday-night-specs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/06\/23\/monday-night-specs\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; specs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing the world differently tonight&#8230; and I mean that most literally. . I picked up my new hi-tech glasses this afternoon. They are titanium, super light weight and more or less bulletproof. I&#8217;m always working with tools and several times over the years my glasses have saved my sight. I always were safety glasses.. but hey.. you never know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I htink im goign to like these.. they are a little stronger than my last pair.. and .. I&#8217;m happy to say.. just as unfashionable&#8230; I shopped around for a long time dodging fashionable 20 somethings trying to get me into something square or heavy rimmed.\u00a0\u00a0 I finally found someone who understood what I meant when I said \u00a0\u00a0 I was goign for Dumbledoor\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1420.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the kind of guy that worries that my old glasses feelings will be hurt.. so I will take a picture of them as well.. Thanks for your service guys.. you&#8217;ve helped me see\u00a0 (if not think) clearly for several years&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1421.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1430.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1431.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1425.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FWIW.. these are an engineering marvel&#8230;. the frames are titanium .. they are so light i can hardly feel them.. and they&#8217;re blended trifocals.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a mix of farsighted and astigmatic.. I can see far away.. but cant read anything closer than new hampshire.\u00a0\u00a0 With my glasses off, I see double.. which is nice in that I feel less lonely.. but kind of hard when I&#8217;m welding or soldering or something..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is .. I didn&#8217;t see in good stereo for years..\u00a0 I only got glasses right before the Colony because I was tired of faking to folks that I could still read.. &#8230; Even then, I just used grocery store readers that I wore all the time..\u00a0\u00a0 First time I got trifocals I felt I was in a bad 1970&#8217;s anti drug movie.. the walls were breathingand the floor was moving&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1428.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1427.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>now I&#8217;m sort of used to it..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sort of..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing the world differently tonight&#8230; and I mean that most literally. . I picked up my new hi-tech glasses this afternoon. They are titanium, super light weight and more or less bulletproof. I&#8217;m always working with tools and several times over the years my glasses have saved my sight. I always were safety glasses.. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/06\/23\/monday-night-specs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; specs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[891],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-specs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}