{"id":7122,"date":"2004-10-26T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/26\/progressive.html"},"modified":"2004-10-26T08:44:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T15:44:47","slug":"progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/26\/progressive.html","title":{"rendered":"Progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, we&#8217;re not talking about politics here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Got my new glasses yesterday.  Progressive lenses (&#8220;bifocals&#8221; without the dividing line).  My close-in vision is definitely improved, but I&#8217;m running into some problems dealing with some distance vision issues.  I&#8217;ll see how my eyes adjust over the next week to see if I need to go back in.<\/p>\n<p><u>UPDATE<\/u>:  Evidently new glasses are an epidemic.  Or were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chirographum.com\/weblog\/index.php?p=1710\">yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, we&#8217;re not talking about politics here &#8230; Got my new glasses yesterday. Progressive lenses (&#8220;bifocals&#8221; without the dividing line). My close-in vision is definitely improved, but I&#8217;m running into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/my_eyes_are_dim.html","url_meta":{"origin":7122,"position":0},"title":"My eyes are dim &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Aug-04 6:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to the optometrist yesterday for my 2-year-and-change check-up. 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