{"id":1074,"date":"2014-05-26T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2014-05-26T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:24:26","slug":"internet-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/internet-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a pair of glasses on the internet.  It was a good experience.<\/p>\n<p>My situation was the simplest possible.  I sent them a pair of old scratched-up glasses and said, &#8220;Replace the lenses with identical new lenses but make them photo-active.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was a little more to it than that, but not much.  They cost less than half as much as they would have at a &#8220;normal&#8221; optician, and even cost less than they would at Costco.<\/p>\n<p>I opted for the <a href=\"www.transitions.com\/en-us\/products\/transitions-xtractive\/\">Transitions XTRActive<\/a> lenses, which darken with exposure to light.  They are a new version that gets darker with less light than before&#8211; they darken a little even while driving in the car, and darken quite a bit even when I wear a hat that shades them. Regular Transition lenses are a lot less active in those circumstances.  The downside is that they take longer to clear up and never become completely clear, but close enough.  I tried Transitions before and was disappointed on the limited darkness in many situations.  So far I am very happy with these.<\/p>\n<p>After some research, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.replacealens.com\/\">ReplaceALens<\/a>.  There are a lot of other reputable companies, but they had the best set of options and had very good BBB and user reviews.  I sent them a question by email before I bought and they were very responsive.  And while making my glasses they called me with a question to clarify something.  All in all I liked working with them and the glasses they sent me were perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a pair of glasses on the internet. It was a good experience. My situation was the simplest possible. I sent them a pair of old scratched-up glasses and said, &#8220;Replace the lenses with identical new lenses but make them photo-active.&#8221; There was a little more to it than that, but not much. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}