{"id":5212,"date":"2009-04-20T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2009-04-20T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:25:27","slug":"optometrists-who-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5212","title":{"rendered":"Optometrists Who Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/offaxis.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/offaxis.jpeg','popup','width=200,height=162,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/offaxis-tm.jpg\" height=\"162\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Offaxis\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad Optometrist <strong>Howard Levy<\/strong>, 56, and his <strong>OffAxis<\/strong> bandmates have been getting a lot of press lately after the group was quoted in a story about how the economy is pushing people to spend a little more time doing the things they love. For Levy that means rocking out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut the music is totally a stress buster,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the passion of our souls to play music, create music, bond with all these people and take our mind off our daily routines.\u201d . . . He joined OffAxis, a group of opticians, optometrists and others in the eye-care industry who play classic rock tunes such as Van Morrison\u2019s \u201cBrown Eyed Girl\u201d and the Beatles\u2019 \u201cI Saw Her Standing There\u201d for fun and charity. The band\u2019s name, a play on words that only an optometrist would get, refers to a common visual distortion known as an astigmatism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>OffAxis<\/strong> is world famous and we&#8217;ve never heard of them. Funny how that happens to us all the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/Business\/BusinessTimes\/Article1.aspx?id=973200\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/calgary\/Jammin\/1512048\/story.html&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=UUTrSeuYJaXYgAOblbiRBw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHW_2xZt6ZtrtUqL1EeURg8dqz6Zw\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad Optometrist Howard Levy, 56, and his OffAxis bandmates have been getting a lot of press lately after the group was quoted in a story about how the economy is pushing people to spend a little more time doing the things they love. For Levy that means rocking out. \u201cBut the music is totally a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}