{"id":10628,"date":"2015-12-19T06:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2015-12-19T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:48:08","slug":"warm-boots-for-a-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10628","title":{"rendered":"Warm Boots for a Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, my spouse and I will have yet another up-and-back quick-turn trip to Pittsburgh.  This time, we intend to&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;pick up my mother-in-law and bring her back to our home for Christmas.  <\/p>\n<p>This may or may not be easy.  She has some old-age health issues that may require very frequent stops, hopefully before she has &#8220;an accident&#8221; in our new SUV.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>No worries, we have plenty of adult diapers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But we just can&#8217;t leave her alone for the holidays, and my spouse would go nuts if he had to stay alone with her, since I can&#8217;t stay since I have to work a few days next week. (No time off for the weary just yet.)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chipblacklogger04-270x300.jpg?resize=270%2C300\" alt=\"Chipblacklogger04\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chipblacklogger04.jpg?resize=270%2C300&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chipblacklogger04.jpg?resize=300%2C333&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chipblacklogger04.jpg?resize=135%2C150&amp;ssl=1 135w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chipblacklogger04.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>The weather is now quite cold, at least for a few days.  I am wearing my warm leather jeans, layers of shirts and leather jacket, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/work\/chipblacklogger.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chippewa loggers<\/a> to keep the tootsies warm.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if the new SUV decides for itself that it needs to turn on seat and steering wheel warmers.  This vehicle has a mind of its own, and scares me sometimes. (giggle.)<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  do what your heart directs for family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, my spouse and I will have yet another up-and-back quick-turn trip to Pittsburgh. This time, we intend to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-work-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}