{"id":1494,"date":"2007-01-21T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2007-01-21T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T10:19:00","slug":"boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Boots!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought a new instance of my old boots today. Asolo 95 GTX, men’s 10 1\/2. I highly recommend them. They are the best boots in the entire universe. <\/p>\n

The particular boots I’m replacing have been with me for about six years. I bought them in Minneapolis. The first trip I remember taking in them was when and I climbed the grand canyon back in 2001. They have hiked in Kings Canyon, CA; Alaska; New Mexico, Switzerland, Scotland, Italy, and China. In that time, I have walked about 3\/4 of an inch of tread off of them. The sole inserts are coming out, and the seams at the top are beginning to fail. All of the size and make\/model information has worn out of the tongue, yet they still look nice on the outside. They have begun to make little wet farting noises when I walk through puddles, beacause I’ve walked the entire exterior layer of sole off of them and water gets between the exterior rubber and the interior padding … and yet they’re still more comfortable than my tennis shoes. I have flat-out sprinted in these boots, and made the train most of the times I’ve tried it.<\/p>\n

I think, perhaps, that I will give these boots a warriors funeral. They deserve better than to be tossed in the trash and buried in a landfill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought a new instance of my old boots today. Asolo 95 GTX, men’s 10 1\/2. I highly recommend them. They are the best boots in the entire universe. <\/p>\n

The particular boots I’m replacing have been with me for about six years. I bought them in Minneapolis. The first trip I remember taking in . . . → Read More: Boots!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}