{"id":256,"date":"2012-04-14T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/256-366-days-of-2012-day-104-timeless.html"},"modified":"2012-04-14T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:03:14","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-104-timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/256-366-days-of-2012-day-104-timeless.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 104 &#8211; Timeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:512 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"712\" height=\"475\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_9814.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI remember a time when I could not wait to own my very own watch. To an eleven-year-old boy, watches held an incredible fascination. I could not say which held the greater part of my awareness: the exquisite craftsmanship, the precision manufacturing, the sense of some control over time or the sense of affluence.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy first watch when I was twelve was a hand-wound Citizen, a symbolic confirmation gift from my parents. I remember I was so proud of it. However that very same year was the cusp of change as friends began sporting new LED display digital watches. From that moment on I was torn between tradition and technology.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt was many years before I came back to a watch with real hands even though still electronic and it was many more years again before finally abandoning electronics altogether with a purely mechanical timepiece. The irony now is I no longer even wear a watch as almost every gadget around does the job of showing the time for me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlthough I&#8217;m now officially timeless I still love the craftsmanship, the precision and the engineering of a well-made timepiece. From time to time I might even wear one!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 104 &#8211; Timeless&#8217;. 10 secs at 200mm f\/22, ISO 400<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a time when I could not wait to own my very own watch. To an eleven-year-old boy, watches held an incredible fascination. I could not say which held the greater part of my awareness: the exquisite craftsmanship, the precision manufacturing, the sense of some control over time or the sense of affluence. My &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 104 &#8211; Timeless\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/256-366-days-of-2012-day-104-timeless.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 104 &#8211; Timeless\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}