{"id":25,"date":"2018-08-25T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T10:19:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:19:43","slug":"an-open-letter-to-andrew-about-his-new-mustache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/25\/an-open-letter-to-andrew-about-his-new-mustache\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Andrew About His New Mustache"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most inexpensive and medium-priced watches, used mainly for timekeeping, are electronic watches with quartz movements. Expensive collectible watches, valued more for their elaborate craftsmanship, aesthetic appeal and glamorous design than for <a href=\"#\">simple<\/a> timekeeping, often have purely mechanical movements and are powered by springs, even though these movements are generally less accurate and more expensive than electronic ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various extra features, called complication, such as moon-phase displays and the different types of tourbillon, are sometimes included. Modern watches often display the day, date, month and year, and electronic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I must therefore warn that <strong>well-known character<\/strong>, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful <a href=\"#\">business<\/a>: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l.jpg\" alt=\"Hello! What's the excitement?\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-640x422.jpg 640w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-759x500.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hello! What&#8217;s the excitement?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the literary artist works is the dialect of life; hence, on the one hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular limitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The report, though a piece of journalistic conjecture, afterwards proved to be very near to the <a href=\"#\">mark<\/a>. It was to the effect that Germany had declared war against Russia and also France, and that her troops were already pouring over the respective frontiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hitherto they had overcome the initial difficulty that confronts British road users in France\u2014the fact that all traffic keeps, or is supposed to keep, to the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.demos.pixelgrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/03\/what-beatles-2.jpg\" class=\"img-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l.jpg\" alt=\"what-beatles-2\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-640x422.jpg 640w, https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/patch-placeholder-l-759x500.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>There&#8217;s something in the wind, old chap.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With half-closed throttles, and tyres sufficiently <a href=\"#\">soft<\/a> to absorb most of the shocks, the young tourists bumped over the <i>pav\u00e9<\/i>, swung round, and soon settled down to a modest fifteen miles an hour along the Namur road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A nondescript block in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a bank, or what used to be a bank.<\/strong> Now it is the home of Roland G. Murphy Watch Company, the country&#8217;s only truly independent elite watchmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inside, Adam Robertson, is bent over an old watchmaker&#8217;s drill press that looks like it was made during the Korean War.<\/strong> Inside, Murphy&#8217;s son-in-law, Adam Robertson, is bent over an old watchmaker&#8217;s drill press that looks like it was made is bent over an old watchmaker&#8217;s drill Adam Robertson, is&nbsp;Block in Lancaster County, <a href=\"#\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, is a bank, or what used to be a bank. Now it is the home of Roland G. Murphy Watch Company, the country&#8217;s only truly independent elite watchmaker. Inside, Murphy&#8217;s son-in-law, Adam Robertson, is bent over an old watchmaker&#8217;s drill press that looks like it was made during the Korean War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All images are under copyright \u00a9&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/laurentnivalle.fr\/\">Laurent Nivalle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off his Oscar win, Eddie Redmayne is keeping busy filming The Danish Girl, a true story. He plays Lili Elbe, the first transgender woman to successfully undergo sexual reassignment surgery in the early 1900s, and he looks beautiful in this first picture. The movie is directed by Tom Hooper (with whom Redmayne worked on Les Mis\u00e9rables) and costars Amber Heard. It&#8217;s not due out until 2016, but now I can&#8217;t wait to see more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[26,29,50,55,56,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithtownbull.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}