{"id":1243,"date":"2011-08-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:44:40","slug":"worst-gathering-spot-for-mens-footwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Worst Gathering Spot for Men&#8217;s Footwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">The other day, I went to a strip shopping center to go to the drugstore to pick up a prescription for a senior pal.&nbsp; It was busy; I had to park quite a ways away from the drugstore. The walk to the store took me by a Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>Oh-my-gosh&#8230; all the men there had on shorts with the most ugly footwear ever made &#8212; mostly flip-flops, some upper-end sandals (that they buy for the name), and even crocs. On men!&nbsp; Blimey!<\/p>\n<p>Two guys had on sneakers, but that was it&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t expect to see any guys in boots, and I guess in summer&#8217;s heat, what could I expect?  And being SB&#8217;s typical clientele &#8212; more than half of them were fidgiting with hand-held gadgets, texting away. Oh, fiddle-faddle.<\/p>\n<p>I tell &#8216;ya, it was u-g-l-y.  When I left the drugstore, I took a longer, more circuitous route so I didn&#8217;t have to pass that place on my return to where I parked my Harley.<\/p>\n<p>Blecchhh&#8230; I don&#8217;t like Starbucks anyway. Not being a coffee-drinker, they never appealed to me.&nbsp; Plus, I just can&#8217;t fathom paying US$5.00 for some sugary frothy latte-this or smoothie-that.  Yuck.<\/p>\n<p>I never was cut out to be a yuppie.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:&nbsp; avoid unbootedness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I went to a strip shopping center to go to the drugstore to pick up a prescription for a senior pal.&nbsp; It was busy; I had to park quite a ways away from the drugstore. The walk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1243\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}