{"id":319,"date":"2009-10-20T02:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-10-20T02:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:24:00","slug":"my-watch-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/my-watch-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"My Watch Stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/watch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This morning, at about 5:40 am, my watch of 11 years stopped for the second time. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Amber bought me this Lorus Sports watch for my birthday back in &#8217;98, our first year dating. I&#8217;ve had it ever since. Before this watch I had a series of Casio digital watches that would last about 2 or 3 years and then conk out &#8211; and it was cheaper (and more fun) to buy a new watch than to replace the battery. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Six years later, when we lived in Montreal, the battery died and I went to a jewelry store and ten bucks later, it was ticking again. Five and a half years later and it has happened again, almost like clockwork.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Guatemala, I dropped my watch and the glass cracked pretty badly. I bought a couple cheap Casio ripoffs in the market (why wouldn&#8217;t they make pretend watches of a better brand?), but they would only last a couple days. So, I took my watch to a local jeweler and for Q50 ($7) he replaced the glass and seal and it was like new (except that it would let in some moisture when it rained (which was all the time)). I dropped it about a month later and had to do it all over again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, here&#8217;s to keeping a good watch for as long as possible. Cheers!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, at about 5:40 am, my watch of 11 years stopped for the second time. Amber bought me this Lorus Sports watch for my birthday back in &#8217;98, our first year dating. I&#8217;ve had it ever since. Before this watch I had a series of Casio digital watches that would last about 2 or &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/my-watch-stopped\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-319","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-random","9":"category-technology","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}