{"id":1114,"date":"2011-03-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:41:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T11:41:54","slug":"stompers-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Stompers Boots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-GS2q2FhPHRw\/TYa4nioEJnI\/AAAAAAAAC1o\/E3A2oJCYs0g\/s320\/Stompers.jpg?resize=156%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" align=left hspace=10 vspace=10 width=\"156\" \/>I arrived in San Fransisco yesterday about mid-day.  My friend, current Owner of Stompers Boots, Mike McNamee, came to pick me up and take me into the city for a pleasant afternoon visit.  We enjoyed lunch with his new business partner, Ken, and talked a lot about the business of boot retailing in today&#8217;s internet world.<\/p>\n<p>Following lunch, Mike and I hung out in the city, and went to visit a store that makes custom motorcycle leathers.  I saw a lot of very interesting possibilities here.  Mike did too!<\/p>\n<p>I truly enjoyed seeing my ol&#8217; pal, hanging out, talking boots, and catching up on each other&#8217;s lives.  Mike is a wonderful man.  I am honored to have him as a friend, and to have him take so much time to visit with lil&#8217; ol&#8217; me &#8230; just some boot guy from the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  wear boots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in San Fransisco yesterday about mid-day. My friend, current Owner of Stompers Boots, Mike McNamee, came to pick me up and take me into the city for a pleasant afternoon visit. We enjoyed lunch with his new business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","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=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}