{"id":114,"date":"2008-06-29T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-06-29T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T20:04:00","slug":"choosing-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SGfrGTgx5dI\/AAAAAAAAAWI\/_Ya5WTrRlgQ\/s1600-h\/Choose.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SGfrGTgx5dI\/AAAAAAAAAWI\/_Ya5WTrRlgQ\/s400\/Choose.gif?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217397186881512914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">Since I am an out an open Bootman, I have received a number of email messages asking me questions about buying boots.  Over the past several months, I have been writing, on-and-off, my own &#8220;tutorial&#8221; version of things I consider when buying boots for my personal use.<\/p>\n<p>You can find this information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/gen\/bootchoose.html\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember now, this is my own personal opinion.  Every man who wears boots has different likes, dislikes, and preferences.  For example, I don&#8217;t really like lace-up boots because I&#8217;m just too lazy to take the time to lace them properly.  (And I guess it reminds me too much of shoes; yuck.)  I wear cowboy boots primarily at my place of employment and for knockin&#8217; around in my community at meetings and such.  I wear motorcycle boots, of course, when riding my Harley.<\/p>\n<p>I only wear boots, without a pair of sneakers or dress shoes to be found in MY closet (I won&#8217;t say what&#8217;s in my partner&#8217;s closet, but I love him anyway.)  I change boots two to five times a day, depending on what I&#8217;m doing and where I am going.  But to me, boots are functional footwear, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/avocation.html\">an avocation<\/a>.  They are, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/fetish-or-not-fetish.html\">not a fetish<\/a>.  These sentences have links to past blog posts of mine that explain why.  Visit them if you&#8217;re curious.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/gen\/bootchoose.html\">visit my website page about choosing boots<\/a> and let me know what you think.  Stay booted!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am an out an open Bootman, I have received a number of email messages asking me questions about buying boots. Over the past several months, I have been writing, on-and-off, my own &#8220;tutorial&#8221; version of things I consider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=114\">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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-boots","category-motorcycle-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}