{"id":15088,"date":"2019-04-13T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:41:48","slug":"expensive-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15088","title":{"rendered":"Expensive Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBootsblog.jpg?resize=200%2C101\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"101\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBootsblog.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBootsblog.jpg?resize=150%2C76&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Being interested in boots (okay, I know that is an understatement), I see a lot of advertising and marketing for boots. So today for National Boots Day (whoda thunk?), I am asking a genuine question for boot enthusiasts:  &#8220;who in the heck&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;would pay almost $6,000 for a single pair of boots?  Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so they are alligator.  But man oh man, are these boots pricey.  So back to my original question &#8212; who would pay that much for a pair of boots (that look like almost any other exotic boots on the market) made by a commercial vendor?<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBoots.jpg?resize=584%2C469\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBoots.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBoots.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBoots.jpg?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ExpensiveBoots.jpg?resize=374%2C300&amp;ssl=1 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>These boots are not custom-made, nor bespoke, nor personally fitted.  Not gilded with gold or threaded with platinum.  I just &#8230; don&#8217;t &#8230; get &#8230; it.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  even if you have money to burn, there are many other ways to spend it wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being interested in boots (okay, I know that is an understatement), I see a lot of advertising and marketing for boots. So today for National Boots Day (whoda thunk?), I am asking a genuine question for boot enthusiasts: &#8220;who in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15088\">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-15088","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\/15088","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=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}