{"id":13833,"date":"2018-04-25T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2018-04-25T06:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:51:12","slug":"boots-for-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=13833","title":{"rendered":"Boots for Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202-300x204.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=150%2C102&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=768%2C523&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=440%2C300&amp;ssl=1 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Admittedly, I am an unabashed fan of boots.  I wear several pairs of boots each day, depending on what I am doing and where I am going.  I wrote a while ago on a post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=13696\" target=\"_blank\">Bikers: Where Are The Boots?<\/a> that at a motorcycle rider&#8217;s group training conference, a large number of men were wearing sneakers because they said that sneakers were more comfortable than boots.<\/p>\n<p>Poppycock.  <\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to receive a comment on that post recently that affirmed my assertion that boots are comfortable.  That comment said,<br \/>\n<!--more--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chipharness99-272x300.jpg?resize=272%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chipharness99.jpg?resize=272%2C300&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chipharness99.jpg?resize=136%2C150&amp;ssl=1 136w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Chipharness99.jpg?w=544&amp;ssl=1 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wear boots precisely BECAUSE I&#8217;m on my feet all day. I&#8217;m a county commissioner in a rural Colorado mountain county, so most days I wear western work boots most days because I may be jumping fences to check an irrigation ditch issue, climbing an embankment to see a road job, or hiking through the woods to view a volunteer trail project. On meeting or business days, I wear nice Tony Lamas &#8211; and on my Harley, I wear my Chippewa harness boots!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have said this any better myself.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  wear boots. &#8216;nuf said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly, I am an unabashed fan of boots. I wear several pairs of boots each day, depending on what I am doing and where I am going. 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