{"id":4271,"date":"2014-04-13T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2014-04-19T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T04:43:53","slug":"a-recycled-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4271","title":{"rendered":"A recycled gift :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 4\/19 &#8211; Shortly after I posted this entry, I saw that the hands on the 2 mini &#8216;clocks&#8217; on my watch came apart ( as seen in the pic)!!Geeez&#8230; I sent it back to Fossil to have it fixed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was back in Singapore a few months back and was packing my things as usual &#8211;\u00a0 so many years in US and still many things in Singapore. My mum found this watch which I totally forgot that I had it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/watch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4272\" alt=\"watch\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/watch.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/watch.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/watch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/watch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/watch-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a watch which BH gave me on my 21st birthday! wah.. sentimental value right? However, the strap broke. At first, I did not want it anymore BUT my mum persuaded me to bring it back to the states with me. So I did. I contacted Fossil and was told that this watch had been discontinued&#8230;&#8230; and&#8230;. they are going to give me $125 credit towards a new watch!!!! OMG!! Such joy!! New watch!! It&#8217;s like a birthday present &#8211; recycled.<\/p>\n<p>Tadah! My new watch!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_9921.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4273\" alt=\"IMG_9921\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_9921.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_9921.jpg 418w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_9921-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Fossil for the amazing after-service, even though it&#8217;s nearly 10 years!!!! Now, I am hoping that a broken Philippe Starck watch is not a collectible item which is worth more than $125&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 4\/19 &#8211; Shortly after I posted this entry, I saw that the hands on the 2 mini &#8216;clocks&#8217; on my watch came apart ( as seen in the pic)!!Geeez&#8230; I sent it back to Fossil to have it fixed&#8230; I was back in Singapore a few months back and was packing my things as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A recycled gift :)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}