{"id":490,"date":"2009-07-20T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-07-20T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T16:18:27","slug":"swatch-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/swatch-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Rated &#038; Swatch Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you bought a fancy x-rated swatch a few weeks back, and you are afraid to wear it outside your foam padded bedroom.  Your afraid it&#8217;ll get all scratched up while stage diving to The Mongoloids.  That may be the case, but you could always slap one of these over it to give you a minor sense of protection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574646525&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336281937&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=150359984826&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.teetilldeath.com\/shirt-images\/2009.07\/2009.07.20.swatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, a man I consider wise in all things edge once said to me, &#8220;would you put training wheels on a porsche or laminate your Bold Join The Fight tee? No!  Then why would you put one of these disgusting looking pieces of plastic on your x-rated swatch?&#8221; Much of that is obviously paraphrased, but I think you get the picture.  And I tend to agree.  While your swatch purchase may not have been inexpensive, sporting it sans guard is the only way to go.  Those scratches on the crystal are a badge of pride, in my book.  I&#8217;ve been wearing my watch every day for the last 10 years, and it has never let me down.<\/p>\n<p>Just check this pic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574646525&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336281937&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=140332453861&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.teetilldeath.com\/shirt-images\/2009.07\/2009.07.20.swatchX.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could you see Drew Bold rocking that look in the Bold Rev poster?  No way.  That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you bought a fancy x-rated swatch a few weeks back, and you are afraid to wear it outside your foam padded bedroom. Your afraid it&#8217;ll get all scratched up while stage diving to The Mongoloids. That may be the case, but you could always slap one of these over it to give you a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}