{"id":5197,"date":"2013-07-14T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2013-07-14T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T10:26:17","slug":"justin-boots-has-crossed-a-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5197","title":{"rendered":"Justin Boots Has Crossed a Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am without words (allowable to say in public, anyway.)  When I saw this image:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Justinlostit.jpg?resize=584%2C225\" alt=\"Justinlostit\" width=\"584\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Justinlostit.jpg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Justinlostit.jpg?resize=300%2C116&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Justinlostit.jpg?resize=150%2C58&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Justinlostit.jpg?resize=500%2C193&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>I thought&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe people at Justin Brands, owner of the Justin Boots, have completely lost their minds.  Every one of them.  They have proven that they have lost focus on what the heritage of their label means by slapping their brand label on cheap Chinese-made junk. Not quality. Not good-looking appearance. Not rugged footwear.  Uggghh!<\/p>\n<p>BOOTS ARE BOOTS &#8212; NOT FLIP-FLOPS!  My gosh!  How could they cross over to the dark side and put their brand on the most useless, unsafe, and unsightly form of things-on-feet??? (I cannot call those things footwear.)<\/p>\n<p>Justin, shame on you!  Get men and women into boots &#8212; not silly, dorky, dumb flip-flops!<\/p>\n<p>Go to a blackboard and write 1,000 times:  Boots are for feet, flip-flops are for trash!<\/p>\n<p>Arrrgghhhh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; end of rant.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  WEAR BOOTS &#8212; even in summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am without words (allowable to say in public, anyway.) When I saw this image: I thought&#8230;<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197","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=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}