{"id":15596,"date":"2008-09-02T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2008\/09\/02\/in-which-i-get-silicone-implants\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:44","slug":"in-which-i-get-silicone-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2008\/09\/02\/in-which-i-get-silicone-implants\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I get silicone implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to my optician&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve been getting notices telling me it&#8217;s time to have my eyes tested, and I know very well it&#8217;s just a ploy to tempt me into buying new glasses, but I like mine. So I just booked an eye test, and while I was there I asked one of the assistants there if she could look at my specs, maybe straighten them out, since they sometimes sit funny and make me feel cross-eyed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The assistant went away, fiddled with them for a bit, then came back and handed them to me. She&#8217;d tweaked the frames but also replaced the hard plastic nose-rests with silicone ones. Ahhh! So much more comfortable, and now they don&#8217;t slip down my nose. (I&#8217;d got into the habit of constantly giving the world the finger as I made that geeky gesture to push them back up). Thank you, Glasses Lady!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve got a Big Birthday this month &#8212; I&#8217;m turning 40 &#8212; and I also want to properly launch my new novel, Finitude. So stay tuned for details about both events <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1105\/in-which-i-get-silicone-implants0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to my optician&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve been getting notices telling me it&#8217;s time to have my eyes tested, and I know very well it&#8217;s just a ploy to tempt me into buying new glasses, but I like mine. So I just booked an eye test, and while I was there I asked one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}