{"id":14234,"date":"2004-04-08T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/ow-my-eyeball\/"},"modified":"2004-04-08T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T11:30:00","slug":"ow-my-eyeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/ow-my-eyeball\/","title":{"rendered":"Ow, My Eyeball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20040407\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_odd_eye\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"eyeball jewelry\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/eyeballpiercing.jpg\" \/><\/a>And here I thought I&rsquo;d seen it all.  <i>Yahoo<\/i> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20040407\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_odd_eye\" target=\"_blank\">eyeball jewelry<\/a>&hellip; Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called &ldquo;JewelEye&rdquo; in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.<br \/>\n<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>\n<br \/> The piece of jewelry is inserted in the conjunctiva &ndash; the mucous membrane lining the inner surface of the eyelids and front of the eyeball &ndash; in sterile conditions using an operating microscope in a procedure taking about 15 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides freaking the hell out of me, I just can&rsquo;t see how this won&rsquo;t make their eyes fall out.  There are so many other ways to get attention&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108142380747099009?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here I thought I&rsquo;d seen it all. Yahoo reports: The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry&hellip; Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called &ldquo;JewelEye&rdquo; in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/ow-my-eyeball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ow, My Eyeball!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}