{"id":1716,"date":"2012-10-13T07:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T11:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2012-10-30T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:01:21","slug":"more-love-for-my-loupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"More Love for My Loupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1728\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bible-loupe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1728\" title=\"Bible and Loupe\" src=\"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bible-loupe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bible-loupe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bible-loupe.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Tools That Help Me See<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I used to think that little things didn&#8217;t bother people as they got older because they had matured. \u00a0They had learned to ignore the small stuff and focus on bigger issues. \u00a0Now that I am older, I know better. \u00a0Older people aren&#8217;t ignoring the small stuff. \u00a0They just can&#8217;t SEE the small stuff. \u00a0Such was the case with me and a splinter I got in my finger the other day. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t see it, but every time I touched something with that finger, the splinter would painfully make itself known. \u00a0Fortunately, I had invested in something years ago that would now help my older eyes deal with splinters.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago,\u00a0when I was a young guy, I bought a jeweler&#8217;s loupe at a surplus tool store.\u00a0 It\u00a0looked like something that might be useful some day.\u00a0 It\u00a0looked like something that\u00a0every person ought to have.\u00a0\u00a0So I\u00a0bought it.\u00a0\u00a0Now, 30 years later, I use it all the time. It&#8217;s one of the best investments I ever made.\u00a0 It helps me see things I just can&#8217;t see on my own. The older I get, the more I rely on it.\u00a0 And by the way, the same is true for my Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think that little things didn&#8217;t bother people as they got older because they had matured. \u00a0They had learned to ignore the small stuff and focus on bigger issues. \u00a0Now that I am older, I know better. \u00a0Older people aren&#8217;t ignoring the small stuff. \u00a0They just can&#8217;t SEE the small stuff. \u00a0Such was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245,246],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-bible","tag-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}