{"id":8102,"date":"2016-12-19T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2016-12-27T19:14:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:14:30","slug":"daily_763_-_rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/daily_763_-_rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 763 &#8211; rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0763_rings.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nI damaged two of the stones on my wedding ring a while ago, and had to hand it to a goldsmith for the stones to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly for me, when I got back the ring I noticed it had been polished &#8211; an odd decision, given that this ring was one of a pair, and polishing just one of two matching rings leads to a weird-looking result. Not to mention that these rings had a matte finish to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Since you cannot really &#8220;unpolish&#8221; a ring, I handed them the other ring as well and had them both re-matted. That week, with no rings on my finger, I kept noticing their absence all the time. It wasn&#8217;t so much the ring finger itself that felt empty. It turns out that, throughout the day, I occasionally touch the rings in a particular gesture with my other fingers &#8211; and when the ring is not there, they meet an emptiness.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have them back, looking as nice as they did when they were new, and my fingers can feel comfortable again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I damaged two of the stones on my wedding ring a while ago, and had to hand it to a goldsmith for the stones to be replaced. Unexpectedly for me, when I got back the ring I noticed it had been polished &#8211; an odd decision, given that this ring was one of a pair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}