{"id":1165,"date":"2011-05-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2019-04-10T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:22:52","slug":"observations-cops-wearing-dehner-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Observations: Cops Wearing Dehner Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--Lpi7y0vUYA\/TcnZ_61fazI\/AAAAAAAAC7M\/gbQ1jbG6Qgw\/s1600\/Doublesoled.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--Lpi7y0vUYA\/TcnZ_61fazI\/AAAAAAAAC7M\/gbQ1jbG6Qgw\/s400\/Doublesoled.jpg?resize=400%2C102\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Here are a few photos of dress instep Dehner boots on some motor officers.  I took these pictures during the staging of <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedman.com\/galleries\/index.php?cat=25\">Law Ride<\/a>, which was held on Sunday, May 8, in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>The boots shown in the pride above (i.e., a group of lions is a pride, as is a group of boots worn by proud motor officers) are double-soled.  The officers who wear them are from a county police force in Virginia.  They have double soles added by a cobbler.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vtrTdIgcdvQ\/TcnaAJ6dyOI\/AAAAAAAAC7Q\/65gV6Z0hX10\/s1600\/Shinyboots.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vtrTdIgcdvQ\/TcnaAJ6dyOI\/AAAAAAAAC7Q\/65gV6Z0hX10\/s320\/Shinyboots.jpg?resize=225%2C320\" width=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The boots to the right are well cared-for.  Some cops know how to take care of their boots, although he didn&#8217;t break them in correctly (see the left boot?&nbsp; Bad ankle break; betcha it&#8217;s painful sometimes.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Gb44jiz_1Oc\/TcnZ_stqfuI\/AAAAAAAAC7I\/W613A5TPnAI\/s1600\/Badbreaks.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Gb44jiz_1Oc\/TcnZ_stqfuI\/AAAAAAAAC7I\/W613A5TPnAI\/s320\/Badbreaks.jpg?resize=320%2C267\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and some cops do not care for their boots (like these on a cop whose jurisdiction includes the county where I live).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Ouch!  The sagging at the ankles!  That cop didn&#8217;t break them in correctly, and is making them worse by bending his ankles that way.  <\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  know your Dehner boots.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few photos of dress instep Dehner boots on some motor officers. I took these pictures during the staging of Law Ride, which was held on Sunday, May 8, in Washington, DC. The boots shown in the pride &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1165\">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":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop-boots","category-dehner-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}