{"id":118,"date":"2005-05-07T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-07-27T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:37:52","slug":"keeps-on-ticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2005\/05\/07\/keeps-on-ticking\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeps on Ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For joy! <\/p>\n<p>  I have once again found a watch that I had purchased shortly after I began college in 1998.  This might not be a big thing, but this particular watch has been lost a few times on my part since then and I have always found it again.  I&#8217;ve had to replace the band.  This all for a cheap $10 timepiece from Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>  But what is more odd\/interesting is that the watch still has the same battery it had when I bought it.  I think that&#8217;s a record of some sort.  Close to 7 years on the same battery?  Yeah, pretty remarkable.  No, it isn&#8217;t a solar watch either.  It&#8217;s only acts up a bit once in a while when it gets wet, which is dumb, because it sports a &#8220;water resistance&#8221; to 30 meters, but I highly doubt that would work real well now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For joy! I have once again found a watch that I had purchased shortly after I began college in 1998. This might not be a big thing, but this particular watch has been lost a few times on my part since then and I have always found it again. I&#8217;ve had to replace the band. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}