{"id":52,"date":"2007-12-11T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-12-11T19:34:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T02:34:39","slug":"i-put-my-eyes-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"I put my eyes in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My safety glasses arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Through the many years I wore only a contact, if anything, my left eye was subjected to no correction. It was very upset when I put this lens on it. It squirmed around. I saw double; things alternated between looking much more clear and much less clear. I don&#8217;t know if it is just glasses as usual or because one eye is too nearsighted to pick my nose, and the other is slightly farsighted (overlooking my nose entirely, I suppose), but with the glasses on each eye has a different focal length unless I look straight through the glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Probably this is common to wearers of glasses. I suppose my eyes will be locked looking straight out of my skull for the rest of my life. This is probably why people who wear glasses develop a distinctive sag around their eyes; not a huge sag, but a characteristic softening. The eye-driving muscles are deprived of any function and wither away.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more fun to look at life from all different angles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My safety glasses arrived. Through the many years I wore only a contact, if anything, my left eye was subjected to no correction. It was very upset when I put this lens on it. It squirmed around. I saw double; things alternated between looking much more clear and much less clear. I don&#8217;t know if it is just glasses as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=52\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}