{"id":993,"date":"2010-11-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2010-11-21T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T09:00:00","slug":"boot-hooks-and-hanging-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Boot Hooks and Hanging Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TN06q7G5eFI\/AAAAAAAACo8\/2e2Qs24IO1E\/s1600\/hang01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TN06q7G5eFI\/AAAAAAAACo8\/2e2Qs24IO1E\/s1600\/hang01.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was sent an email recently asking for my opinion about what type of hooks to buy to use to hang boots from a rod.&nbsp; That is how I store a number of my boots.&nbsp; Hanging them by their bootstraps (or boot pulls) keeps the boots in shape, and gets them up off the floor and out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion is that you do not need to purchase expensive hooks from a specialty store or even a retail home supplies store.&nbsp; Do what I have done:&nbsp; cut apart wire coat hangars.&nbsp; Those hangars are easy to find, and often are provided by a cleaner when having shirts laundered or dry cleaned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TN06dov00sI\/AAAAAAAACo4\/5RDRzmLaBLU\/s1600\/hooks.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TN06dov00sI\/AAAAAAAACo4\/5RDRzmLaBLU\/s1600\/hooks.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>All you need to do is cut the wire with a strong pair of wire cutters (or the cutter blade found on some good-quality pliers) and bend them to form hooks.&nbsp; You can make them as long or short as you want, customized to the length that may be required for a pair of boots that may have deeper boot pulls than others (such as sewn inside a boot shaft vs. leather pulls sewn over the top of the shaft).<\/p>\n<p>No need to waste money on expensive products when making your own will do just fine, and is easy, simple, quick, and cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:&nbsp; be practical and save money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent an email recently asking for my opinion about what type of hooks to buy to use to hang boots from a rod.&nbsp; That is how I store a number of my boots.&nbsp; Hanging them by their bootstraps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=993\">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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot-storage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}