{"id":843,"date":"2009-03-22T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2009-03-22T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T03:23:57","slug":"what-does-your-watch-say-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/what-does-your-watch-say-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What does your watch say about you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I see how people accessorize and wonder what it reveals about their personality. Take, for instance, this large-headphone, gold-Casio-Databank-wearing woman I&#8217;ve seen twice on the train:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_10251.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_10252.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"846\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/what-does-your-watch-say-about-you\/img_10252\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_10252.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"img_10252\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_10252.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_10252.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-846\" title=\"img_10252\" src=\"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_10252.jpg\" alt=\"img_10252\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember saving $40 to purchase my plain-black-plastic banded (which was notorious for cracking and breaking) Databank. Those were the days. Could calculate, could store the phone numbers of my 50-closest friends (yeah, I don&#8217;t think I ever filled it), could store all my appointments&#8230; so cool, and yet agonizing to use. Since then I&#8217;ve moved on to a good old Timex Ironman, which pretty much stays on me 24\/7, and well, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. In some ways, I guess the Timex &#8211; durable, reliable, just sporty enough, not too complicated &#8211; may be is a good reflection of me. Or maybe not, who knows. Anyway, what are you wearing? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I see how people accessorize and wonder what it reveals about their personality. Take, for instance, this large-headphone, gold-Casio-Databank-wearing woman I&#8217;ve seen twice on the train:<\/p>\n<p>I remember saving $40 to purchase my plain-black-plastic banded (which was notorious for cracking and breaking) Databank. Those were the days. Could calculate, could store the phone numbers of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,22,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-dB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}