{"id":478,"date":"2009-03-19T17:51:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/478"},"modified":"2009-03-19T19:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T02:34:40","slug":"birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/birthday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Hawaii, Ashley informed me that she and Brandon were going in together on a birthday gift for me, and we proceeded to look through various shops and fairs for local artisans to locate the perfect item.\u00c2\u00a0 I found a couple of things that I quite liked, but they weren&#8217;t <em>perfect<\/em>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 or were way out of budget :)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So I asked if it would be ok if I waited til I got home to find a gift from my favorite local artists store &#8211; <a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musingsart.com\/index2.html\">Musings Artist Inspired<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Local artist <em>Celeste Stuhring<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0has created <em class=\"b\">dichroic glass<\/em> watches that catch my eye every time I visit.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here is what I selected:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/watch1.jpg\" alt=\"My new watch\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/watch2.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful new watch\" class=\"floatright\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><em class=\"b\">Isn&#8217;t it beautiful!? <\/em>I haven&#8217;t worn a watch for years &#8211; not since I started carrying a cell phone &#8211; but I&#8217;m very excited about wearing this piece of art every day.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">Thanks Brandon, Ashley and families!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Hawaii, Ashley informed me that she and Brandon were going in together on a birthday gift for me, and we proceeded to look through various shops and fairs for local artisans to locate the perfect item.\u00c2\u00a0 I found a couple of things that I quite liked, but they weren&#8217;t perfect&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 or were way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/birthday-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthday Gift<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends","category-style-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}