{"id":2813,"date":"2004-09-21T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/21\/the-new-me\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:12:04","slug":"the-new-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/21\/the-new-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The new me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10203,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00003CXCT\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311021241\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00003CXCT\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00003CXCT\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think these pictures <em>really<\/em> do them justice, but I got my new glasses today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/oldglasses.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"352\" alt=\"My old glasses\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My old glasses &#8212; I&#8217;ve had these for years now. They worked well when I was younger and needed something to give my face some depth, but as I&#8217;ve aged, they&#8217;ve come to dominate my face rather than accent it. So, on the advice of a few people and the assistance of Prairie, I found something smaller and less domineering.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/newglasses.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"352\" alt=\"My new glasses\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the new pair. <em>Much<\/em> smaller, lighter, and totally rimless &#8212; with the anti-glare coating they&#8217;ve got, they&#8217;re almost invisible. Incredibly light, too, I&#8217;m still marveling at how much heavier the old ones feel now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/09\/graphics\/newglasses-shades.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"352\" alt=\"My new glasses, with shades\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even better, these come with little clip-on shades that match the shape of the lenses perfectly. For the first time in ages, I&#8217;ll actually have sunglasses &#8212; we occasionally tried to get me prescription glasses when I was younger, but they&#8217;d invariably disappear after only a few weeks, and it quickly became apparent that that was just an unfortunate waste of money. It&#8217;s going to be very nice to be able to go outside without squinting.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s my excitement for the day &#8212; that, and picking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00003CXCT\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Star Wars Trilogy\">Star Wars on DVD<\/a>. Okay, yeah, I&#8217;m still a little miffed at Lucas for not releasing the <em>original<\/em> Original Trilogy, but I &#8212; along with many other people &#8212; grew up on these films. I just couldn&#8217;t talk myself out of picking them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think these pictures really do them justice, but I got my new glasses today, along with Star Wars on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[23,13,1574],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-life","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}