{"id":179,"date":"2009-06-24T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/06\/24\/june_24\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:00:53","slug":"june_24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/06\/24\/june_24\/","title":{"rendered":"June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My trusty old Swift binoculars broke near the end of last season&#8230; one objective lens sheared right off at the threads, probably as a result of being dropped, or banged against a rock, or something.&nbsp; I tried a few different approaches to repair them, but ultimately I think they&#8217;d need a new barrel.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/DCL_3357-1085.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/DCL_3357-thumb-512x340-1085.jpg\" alt=\"DCL_3357.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"340\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>I spent the remainder of my REI rebate this year on a new pair of binoculars.&nbsp; These are of a different optical design (roof prism rather than porro prism) that allows them to be smaller, more damage-resistant, and waterproof.&nbsp; But other than that, their specs and performance are remarkably similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trusty old Swift binoculars broke near the end of last season&#8230; one objective lens sheared right off at the threads, probably as a result of being dropped, or banged against a rock, or something.&nbsp; I tried a few different approaches to repair them, but ultimately I think they&#8217;d need a new barrel.I spent the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/06\/24\/june_24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June 24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}