{"id":1705,"date":"2006-11-27T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2006-11-30T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:51:50","slug":"sensible-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/sensible-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensible shoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shoeblogs.com\/\">The Manolo<\/a> will diss me for sure. But the prices were right and the styles were err okay and the timing was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>First Tucker and I went to get him some new shoes. I needed some new penny loafers too. I was ready to push the button at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineshoes.com\/productpage.asp?type=brand&#038;brandid=18&#038;brandcatid=105&#038;gen=m&#038;pcid=2758\">the Bass Store<\/a> when we found a nice pair exactly my size at 1\/3 the price right there in U Mall. The downside was they weren&#8217;t Bass. They were\/are Hush Puppies! Yikes <a href=\"www.HushPuppies.com \">Hush Puppies<\/a>. The squarest of the square. As in the Jimmy Buffett song <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaritaville.com\/lyrics_livinanddyin.php\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got my hush-puppies on, \/ I guess I never was meant for \/ glitter rock and roll.&#8221;<\/a><\/em> But <a href=\"http:\/\/hushpuppies.com\/en-US\/Product\/NVSZZZ\/boys\/kids\/Big-Boy\/Black-Leather\/Q30109\/Lincoln.aspx\">having small feet comes in handy,<\/a> I can get kids shoes in the right style at a very right price.<\/p>\n<p>Great feeling shoes with no breakin time required. Next comes the cane then the walker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/shoeblogs.com\/index.php?s=crocs&#038;submit=Search\">from the Manolo angle<\/a>, things got worse when on Ocracoke. <\/p>\n<p>The weather was great for walking on the beach, but Tucker and I had left our flops at home. I didn&#8217;t want to be in the sand in my hiking shoes. Then in the Variety Store, we came up on a barrell of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crocs.com\/home.jsp\">Crocs<\/a> Knockoffs. A virtual gator farm of black plastic shoes for only $5 a pair. Cheaper than the flops. Who could avoid them at that price? I could wear them twice and toss them if necessary. But the shoes are so damn comfortable that I wore them the whole long weekend. And kept them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoeblogs.com\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/the-crocs\/\">Yikes!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manolo will diss me for sure. But the prices were right and the styles were err okay and the timing was perfect. First Tucker and I went to get him some new shoes. I needed some new penny loafers too. I was ready to push the button at the Bass Store when we found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}