{"id":1210,"date":"2011-06-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2013-02-23T06:40:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T11:40:30","slug":"can-straight-men-wear-cowboy-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Can Straight Men Wear Cowboy Boots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"55\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vgO97MMazeg\/TgJOCHMESQI\/AAAAAAAAC9c\/iyfjnJvZlxk\/s400\/Straightcowboyboots.jpg?resize=400%2C55\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Okay, another internet search landed a visitor to my website. The question was, &#8220;Can straight men wear cowboy boots?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a different take on what searches usually direct to my website.  Usually, the question is whether gay men &#8220;can&#8221; wear cowboy boots.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, inquirer from Iowa, USA, I am here once again to disabuse the notion that there is any relationship at all between one&#8217;s sexual orientation and what he chooses to wear on his feet.  <\/p>\n<p>Yep, straight men &#8220;can&#8221; wear cowboy boots.  Go ask a rodeo cowboy or working cowboy if he is gay or straight, then determine whether or not he &#8220;can&#8221; wear cowboy boots.<\/p>\n<p>I keep putting the word &#8220;can&#8221; in quotes, because it really is not a matter of whether it is possible for a man (gay or straight) to wear cowboy boots, but whether in the opinion of some people overly-influenced by the internet and garbage they hear or read due to stereotyping that a guy should, could, or would wear cowboy boots.<\/p>\n<p>Get over it. Guys wear boots &#8212; especially in Iowa!  Come on!  Whatcha smokin&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  wear boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, another internet search landed a visitor to my website. The question was, &#8220;Can straight men wear cowboy boots?&#8221; That&#8217;s a different take on what searches usually direct to my website. Usually, the question is whether gay men &#8220;can&#8221; wear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1210\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}