{"id":22500,"date":"2005-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/new-shoes\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T06:00:00","slug":"new-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/new-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asolo.com\/content.asp?L=1&#038;idMen=250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20050128_asolo.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"260\" height=\"145\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoods.com\/\">Whole Foods<\/a> on the way home from work. I finished my grocery shopping quickly and found that I had a few extra minutes, so I decided to go next door to the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/\">REI<\/a>. I always go to the shoe rack that has returned shoes to see if I can get lucky. Well, yesterday I got lucky. I found a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asolo.com\/content.asp?L=1&#038;idMen=250\">Asolo Axis shoes<\/a> in my size (8) at about $20 off the normal price. They are really comfortable, have a nice Vibram sole, and the tongue doesn&#8217;t stick out excessively, which is important. I don&#8217;t like it when the tongue catches the cuff of my pants, so that the cuff is behind the tongue.<\/p>\n<p>I needed a new pair of shoes to replace my New Balance&#8217;s, which were getting worn out. The fabric at the inside wall of the shoe, just above my heel, was worn through, and a plastic support that had sharp corners was digging into my upper heel. I guess it wore out because I usually slip on my shoes without untying them. Now that I have a new pair of shoes that I can wear everyday, my New Balances will drop down the shoe hierarchy and be my new &#8220;mowing the lawn\/gardening&#8221; shoes. And my Adidas that I used for that purpose can finally be sent to shoe-heaven. RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stopped by Whole Foods on the way home from work. I finished my grocery shopping quickly and found that I had a few extra minutes, so I decided to go next door to the local REI. I always go to the shoe rack that has returned shoes to see if I can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/new-shoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Shoes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5QU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}