{"id":372,"date":"2009-04-03T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2009-04-03T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:30:00","slug":"leatherman-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Leatherman Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">How it is when I get home from work and don&#8217;t have to go to an evening meeting.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qjKUkCZWvGc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And yeah, I built the shelves in the background and my partner finished them.  Since I built our house, we put in a lot of built-in features throughout, which makes it comfortable, livable, and practical.  People have asked, &#8220;where do you store all those boots?&#8221;  When you build your own house, you plan for storage, so the boot closet was part of what we constructed, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Of the many reasons why I love my partner, two things come to mind:  he enjoys and welcomes my many &#8220;leatherman transformations&#8221; at home, even if he isn&#8217;t into leather and boots as I am.  Second, he supported my decision to take a five-month leave-of-absence from my old job when I was building our house and developing out our small neighborhood, and provided me the financial and emotional support I required during that process.  I&#8217;ll never, ever, do that again (dealing with the bureaucracy in developing a small neighborhood took five years and cause me to turn gray among other things), but I couldn&#8217;t have done it without his partnership, love, and all those many back-rubs.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  wear your boots and leather!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How it is when I get home from work and don&#8217;t have to go to an evening meeting. And yeah, I built the shelves in the background and my partner finished them. Since I built our house, we put in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=372\">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":[4,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-leather-lifestyle","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}