{"id":21,"date":"2003-07-17T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steenhagen.us\/~jake\/trunk\/?p=21"},"modified":"2003-07-17T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T15:19:21","slug":"new-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2003\/07\/new-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"New contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went and picked up some contacts. It&#8217;s the first time in my life I&#8217;ve ever worn them. It still seems strange intentionally putting something into my eye. I mean, I&#8217;ve spent my whole life to this point trying to keep things out of my eyes. For example, when I&#8217;m in the shower, I try to keep the shampoo from entering my eyes. Heck, I normally close my eyes when I go underwater just to try to keep the water and\/or chlorine out of my eyes! Anyway, I seem to be getting a little better at putting them in. This morning it only took me 20 minutes (yesterday it took an hour). I&#8217;m still at the point that every time I see my glasses setting on the bookshelf I think I need to grab them. It only takes a second before my brain realizes that it saw my glasses, not just a semi-fuzzy shape resembling my glasses so I haven&#8217;t actually grabbed them and tried to put them on yet. I imagine this whole process gets easier the longer you do it. After all, if it took 20 minutes every morning just to get contacts in, I really don&#8217;t think many people would wear them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went and picked up some contacts. It&#8217;s the first time in my life I&#8217;ve ever worn them. It still seems strange intentionally putting something into my eye. I mean, I&#8217;ve spent my whole life to this point trying to keep things out of my eyes. For example, when I&#8217;m in the shower, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2003\/07\/new-contacts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New contacts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EJi-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}