{"id":264,"date":"2007-04-23T22:32:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T06:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/04\/23\/blog-055-crafty-indeed\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:02:34","slug":"blog-055-crafty-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/04\/23\/blog-055-crafty-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 055 > Crafty Indeed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_lens_01a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_lens_01a_sm.jpg\" alt=\"LensCrafters\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well, as my second follow-up of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/04\/07\/blog-050-eye-of-the-beholder\/\">eyeglass frames post<\/a>, I finally went to <a target=new href=\"http:\/\/www.lenscrafters.com\">LensCrafters<\/a> on Saturday the 21st. And yes, after 6+ frames, 4 assistants, 2 hours (from 11am to 1pm), and $750+ (six-month 0% financing) later, I ultimately decided on a Donna Karan clear-lens frame and Ray-Ban sunglasses frame, neither of which were my initial choices, lol.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Why? Because not only the look, but the FEEL of wearing them (snugly) was crucial. Why not TWO identical Donna Karan&#8217;s? Well, they didn&#8217;t have a second pair, lol. So I took my next-best choice for my sunglasses. Here are my final nearly-identical frames below (sunglass lenses were simulated via Photoshop). Only 10 business days until pickup!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photoshop\/xjaymanx_frames_02a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photoshop\/xjaymanx_frames_02a_sm.jpg\" alt=\"LensCrafters\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Composite by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge Well, as my second follow-up of my eyeglass frames post, I finally went to LensCrafters on Saturday the 21st. And yes, after 6+ frames, 4 assistants, 2 hours (from 11am to 1pm), and $750+ (six-month 0% financing) later, I ultimately decided on a Donna Karan clear-lens frame and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/04\/23\/blog-055-crafty-indeed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <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":[63,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frames","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}