{"id":1328,"date":"2011-10-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2011-10-23T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T08:00:00","slug":"mens-footwear-at-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Footwear at Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">I flew home yesterday from Seattle and had to change planes in Chicago.  I looked at what guys had on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>I know going through security is a pain-in-the-butt; however, it is so routine now &#8212; all you have to do is slip off your boots (or if you must wear them, shoes) and run them through the x-ray.  But so many men (and youngsters in their teens and 20s) do not want to do that, so they wear the most awful crap on their feet.  I saw more guys wearing flip-flops at the airport than I have seen wear those things on a beach.  Ugggghhh!  And it was cold, too.  Wearing crappy footwear like that must be uncomfortable.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I wore my cowboy boots, took them off before security, and got two &#8220;nice boots&#8221; comments from other guys when I was putting them back on after security.  I doubt anyone looks at a guy wearing flip-flops and says, &#8220;nice feet.&#8221;  (LOL!)<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  wear boots!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew home yesterday from Seattle and had to change planes in Chicago. I looked at what guys had on their feet. I know going through security is a pain-in-the-butt; however, it is so routine now &#8212; all you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1328\">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-1328","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\/1328","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=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}