{"id":1024,"date":"2016-07-10T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T00:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2016-07-10T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T00:42:31","slug":"watch-boneyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/watch-boneyard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrist Watch Boneyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey was looking for a replacement battery for an old watch, and that got me looking through my own wrist watch boneyard.  I gave up wearing watches in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the late 1990&#8217;s and early 2000&#8217;s, I wore one of these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/casio-abx-20-u-b3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/casio-abx-20-u-b3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"casio-abx-20-u-b3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1025\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Casio ABX-20 was an analog watch with a digital display that floated above the hands.  I thought it was pretty cool at the time (although I am sure everyone else thought it was dorky).  I also had a couple of Timex &#8220;Expedition&#8221; analog\/digital watches &#8212; they had Indiglo backlights.<br \/>\nI still think the analog\/digital dual format is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the Casio ABX-20 is beyond repair.  But while we were getting a battery for Audrey&#8217;s watch, I picked up a few batteries for some of the other boneyard watches, just to take them for a nostalgic spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey was looking for a replacement battery for an old watch, and that got me looking through my own wrist watch boneyard. I gave up wearing watches in 2008. Back in the late 1990&#8217;s and early 2000&#8217;s, I wore one of these: The Casio ABX-20 was an analog watch with a digital display that floated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-geek","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}