{"id":17289,"date":"2024-03-24T17:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17289"},"modified":"2024-03-24T18:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T22:50:41","slug":"blog-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17289","title":{"rendered":"Blog Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Since I changed my “Booted Harleydude” website<\/a> on March 1, 2024, to “Rick’s website (aka “BHD”) A Gay Guy Into Boots, Leather, Shoes, and Suits” along with its header image and home page images too, I thought it was appropriate to change the image header and statement of this blog to: <\/p>\n

BHD’s Musings: the life and times of Rick aka “BHD”
An average former biker, gay leatherman, bootman, shoe & suitman, ‘burbs living guy” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… so the transition will be complete.<\/p>\n

As I said on this blog when<\/a> I made the decision to …
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\n… “rebrand” my website and this blog as the “new me” since my re-emergence into a new life after I retired, lost my husband, and sold my Harley. My fetish interests have changed somewhat as well.<\/p>\n

I remain the same guy, just older and adjusted to a comfortable life alone. <\/p>\n

\"\"I enjoy being retired. I do not enjoy being reluctantly single since I lost my husband, but am getting used to it.<\/p>\n

I do not like that I am not a biker any more since I sold my Harley. But life is change.<\/p>\n

My fetish interests have expanded beyond leather<\/a> (which I still wear occasionally) and boots (my first passion remains cowboy boots<\/a>) to enjoying wearing business suits<\/a> ’cause they’re comfortable along with dress shoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note — banner image above shows me wearing suits with cowboy boots<\/a> (left) and suits with dress shoes<\/a> (middle), then I still enjoy wearing cowboy clothing & boots<\/a>, and from time to time, leather<\/a> and motorcycle boots<\/a> too. <\/p>\n

Regular updates to my website are made often — see the “what’s new” page<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

This update is honest. It’s me. <\/p>\n

I have grown, not abandoned, my former self, but have grown to enjoy living a “fully-out” freedom that is truly me.<\/p>\n

Like it or not, Rick, BHD, Booted (former) Harleydude, Suited Man, Marlboroman, whatever… I’m older, mature, and have nothing to hide.<\/p>\n

Life is short: embrace your own freedom and be the man you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I changed my “Booted Harleydude” website on March 1, 2024, to “Rick’s website (aka “BHD”) A Gay Guy Into Boots, Leather, Shoes, and Suits” along with its header image and home page images too, I thought it was appropriate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,63,62,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-dress-shoes","category-suits","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}