{"id":42,"date":"2008-03-12T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-03-12T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:49:00","slug":"being-nice-booted-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Being &quot;Nice Booted&quot; at the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/R9iIYjvrN9I\/AAAAAAAAAGA\/SD8SLWoh_Lw\/s1600-h\/NRattle09.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/R9iIYjvrN9I\/AAAAAAAAAGA\/SD8SLWoh_Lw\/s320\/NRattle09.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177037727155828690\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">I flew to Minneapolis today.  As I was going through airport security at my home airport, of course I had to take the boots off &#8212; my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/cowboy\/nrattle.html\">Nocona Rattlesnake Cowboy Boots<\/a>.  I put my jacket in the bin and then my boots on top.  The boots fell off the jacket and out of the bin as it went through the X-ray.  When I was gathering my stuff on the other side, the guy behind me picked up one of my boots and said, &#8220;this is a really cool boot, man!&#8221;  The TSA woman joined in and said, &#8220;nice boots &#8212; hey (colleague), look at these boots, aren&#8217;t they nice?&#8221;  Then there was a short but general consensus that everyone liked the boots.<\/p>\n<p>I went to sit down to put my boots back on, and several passers-by also paid the same compliment &#8212; &#8220;nice boots!&#8221;.  I also heard it several times while changing terminals in Chicago.  It&#8217;s nice to know that others notice.  I just picked them because they are so comfortable and easy to take off and put back on again as one goes through airport security.  I wasn&#8217;t really thinking about attracting attention or having the boots noticed.  But they are distinctive, especially when contrasted with blue jeans. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew to Minneapolis today. As I was going through airport security at my home airport, of course I had to take the boots off &#8212; my Nocona Rattlesnake Cowboy Boots. I put my jacket in the bin and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=42\">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":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airport-security","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\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}