{"id":13802,"date":"2018-04-13T05:56:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2018-04-13T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:05:40","slug":"national-boots-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=13802","title":{"rendered":"National Boots Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Nationalbootsdaygif.gif?resize=274%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13810\" \/>Happy National Boots Day!  At least that&#8217;s what my calendar reminds me.  I could not let such a momentous occasion go by without recognizing it.  After all, &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;my screen name moniker begins with &#8220;Booted.&#8221;  LOL.<\/p>\n<p>With a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">large boot collection<\/a> that I wear regularly, one may say that I kinda like boots.  I wear several pairs each day (though not at the same time.)  <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Lucclassicbrown12-101x300.jpg?resize=101%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Lucclassicbrown12.jpg?resize=101%2C300&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Lucclassicbrown12.jpg?resize=51%2C150&amp;ssl=1 51w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Lucclassicbrown12.jpg?w=236&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/>I wear boots with dress clothes to work, boots when I knock about my community engaging in various activities that I do, boots when I escort lovely senior pals to go grocery shopping, boots when I care for my Spouse, and (naturally), boots when I ride my Harley!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone, repeat after me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boots are for the feet and flip-flops are for the trash.<\/p>\n<p>Boots look and feel great and inspire confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Dress shoes are dorky.<\/p>\n<p>Boots are reliable, durable, and outstanding footwear.<\/p>\n<p>Sneakers are for the gym; boots are for all other times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Life is short:  wear boots!<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Copsnewdehners2.jpg?resize=584%2C488\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"488\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Copsnewdehners2.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Copsnewdehners2.jpg?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Copsnewdehners2.jpg?resize=150%2C125&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Copsnewdehners2.jpg?resize=359%2C300&amp;ssl=1 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy National Boots Day! At least that&#8217;s what my calendar reminds me. I could not let such a momentous occasion go by without recognizing it. After all, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5,18,16,8,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop-boots","category-cowboy-boots","category-dehner-boots","category-engineer-boots","category-motorcycle-boots","category-work-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802","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=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}