{"id":65,"date":"2025-03-01T05:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T05:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/?p=65"},"modified":"2025-03-01T05:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T05:13:26","slug":"eye-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/2025\/03\/01\/eye-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye, C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drmangor_88_eyes_of_Dr._Mangor_horror_crawling_terror_octane__a249501a-d5c8-4023-b033-99aa224781ac_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drmangor_88_eyes_of_Dr._Mangor_horror_crawling_terror_octane__a249501a-d5c8-4023-b033-99aa224781ac_2.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drmangor_88_eyes_of_Dr._Mangor_horror_crawling_terror_octane__a249501a-d5c8-4023-b033-99aa224781ac_2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drmangor_88_eyes_of_Dr._Mangor_horror_crawling_terror_octane__a249501a-d5c8-4023-b033-99aa224781ac_2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/drmangor_88_eyes_of_Dr._Mangor_horror_crawling_terror_octane__a249501a-d5c8-4023-b033-99aa224781ac_2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How I used to see into the spiderverse&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can see again. <strong>A revelation!<\/strong> <em>A miracle.<\/em> <sub><sup>A cruel joke<\/sup><\/sub>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">It\u2019s genuinely deranged how bad my vision had gotten\u2014how I simply adjusted to the blur, like a frog boiling in its own oblivion. I had a pair of reading glasses once. Lost them. Never replaced them. Why? Because I am stubborn as a rabid loon, committed to the long con of self-destruction.<br><br>But the fair animation union, in its begrudging mercy, tossed me a bone\u2014(a bone life preserver?) Limited vision insurance. A ticket to clarity, however fleeting. And now, with fresh lenses perched upon my aging skull, I am horrified. The world was this sharp all along? How did I tolerate such smeared reality? No wonder I stopped reading real books, resigned instead to squinting at a Kindle cranked to \u201cgrandma mode.\u201d<br><br>That\u2019s it. If only I could buy glasses for my flogged, fogged, waterlogged old brain. Then\u2014<em><strong>then<\/strong><\/em>\u2014life might actually be <em>tolerable<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can see again. A revelation! A miracle. A cruel joke. It\u2019s genuinely deranged how bad my vision had gotten\u2014how I simply adjusted to the blur, like a frog boiling in its own oblivion. I had a pair of reading glasses once. Lost them. Never replaced them. Why? Because I am stubborn as a rabid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[72,69,70,12,71],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain","tag-clarity","tag-eye","tag-eyes","tag-horror","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mangor.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}