{"id":2568,"date":"2013-11-25T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T12:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2013-11-25T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T12:21:04","slug":"im-certain-id-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Certain I&#8217;d Lose It !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2569\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2569\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2569\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2569\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?fit=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1385143753&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"finger ring\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?fit=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2569\" alt=\"finger ring\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?resize=450%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/finger-ring.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to get this photo and its a bit fuzzy, sorry &#8211; perhaps I should have just asked her, but I didn&#8217;t like to intrude.\u00a0 As a ring-wearing jewellery fan myself, I was struck by the precarious situation the ring had on\u00a0this\u00a0lean bony finger.\u00a0 I marveled at this (young) woman&#8217;s confidence,\u00a0knowing\u00a0from experience how easily\u00a0 a ring can be lost if one waves\u00a0a hand suddenly.\u00a0 I liked the look, though, and I&#8217;ve since tried\u00a0one of my own rings in that position.\u00a0 I quickly\u00a0confirmed mine\u00a0would\u00a0just drop off while I walked along, or come off unnoticed in a\u00a0pocket or\u00a0handbag, or\u00a0perhaps be thrown out with the rubbish. \u00a0Just before our wedding I waved my arm on a beach, and my engagement ring flew off into the dry soft nearby.\u00a0\u00a0 After a short search ourselves\u00a0and with daylight fading,\u00a0 we obtained torches and help from a couple of nearby campers &#8211; and\u00a0it took over an hour to find it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while to get this photo and its a bit fuzzy, sorry &#8211; perhaps I should have just asked her, but I didn&#8217;t like to intrude.\u00a0 As a ring-wearing jewellery fan myself, I was struck by the precarious situation the ring had on\u00a0this\u00a0lean bony finger.\u00a0 I marveled at this (young) woman&#8217;s confidence,\u00a0knowing\u00a0from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-Fq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}