{"id":290,"date":"2009-01-17T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-12-05T07:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:30:29","slug":"leather-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Leather Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SXHn4pQiPHI\/AAAAAAAABBI\/vdBBWRv_jAE\/s1600-h\/Msvpt03.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SXHn4pQiPHI\/AAAAAAAABBI\/vdBBWRv_jAE\/s320\/Msvpt03.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"BHD\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292265997470940274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">It&#8217;s time for Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend in Washington, DC!   Get out your gear, condition it, shine your boots, and come on out!  MAL is reported to be the second-largest leather fetish event in the United States, after &#8220;International Mr. Leather&#8221; (IML) in Chicago.  We attended IML in May 2007 &#8212; and once was enough.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/iml\/\" target=\"_blank\">Been there, done that, got the T-shirt and the boots shined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used to, once upon a time, look forward to this weekend to hang out with other guys in leather.  Now that I&#8217;ve been essentially married for more than 15 years, going to fetish events is not something that my partner and I are interested in doing any more.<\/p>\n<p>However, we do plan to go to the Hotboots party today at the Green Lantern, then head home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the guys attending MAL are finding their leathers useful and practical, &#8217;cause it sure has been darned cold!  In fact, in honor of this &#8220;Leather Weekend,&#8221; (and just &#8217;cause I like to wear leather regularly), I&#8217;ll be &#8220;BLUFfed&#8221; up.  (For those not familiar, BLUF means &#8220;Breeches, Leather, Uniform Fetish&#8221;).  I will be wearing my leathers all weekend as I go about doing things at home with my hunky partner, and being involved on Monday on a day of community service in honor of Martin Luther King&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  Wear your leather!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend in Washington, DC! Get out your gear, condition it, shine your boots, and come on out! MAL is reported to be the second-largest leather fetish event in the United States, after &#8220;International Mr. Leather&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=290\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leather-lifestyle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}