{"id":1115,"date":"2011-03-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2014-07-29T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:17:55","slug":"imagine-the-bootmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Imagine the Bootmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Well, I&#8217;ll have to say &#8220;imagine&#8221; because I have misplaced my camera and none of the other eight guys who joined me for dinner in the Castro in San Francisco last night had one (or thought to take a pic with their i-gadgets.)<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I was delighted to enjoy dinner with Larry and Bill of hotboots.com fame; MichaelSir and his partner; Mike McNamee and his new business partner, Ken; WetInSF; and Boots SF (umm-humm! Woof!).  What great company!  Very interesting men, with lots of fascinating stories to share.  They are really great guys &#8212; knowledgeable, friendly, and delightful company.  Sure makes a business trip to San Francisco enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, all were in boots.  Tall Wescos won the day.  All looked mighty fine in them, too.  Boots SF was in Dehners, and was especially handsome in full leather.  <\/p>\n<p>I was glad that Larry could arrange this for me, and that so many guys showed up.  What a great evening!<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; time to head north.  Return later for another entry of &#8220;as this Bootman travels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  measure it by the quality of the company you keep.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ll have to say &#8220;imagine&#8221; because I have misplaced my camera and none of the other eight guys who joined me for dinner in the Castro in San Francisco last night had one (or thought to take a pic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1115\">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-1115","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\/1115","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=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}