{"id":1389,"date":"2007-08-15T22:39:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T05:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2007-08-15T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T06:26:11","slug":"i-just-spent-100-on-a-pair-of-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"I just spent $100 on a pair of shoes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as my iPod denies it (I heard <strong>Swing Out Sister<\/strong> and <strong>Scritti Politti<\/strong> on the way to REI to buy my shoes), I am a dude and I&#8217;m not used to spending a lot of money on a pair of shoes that are probably going to wear out in six months. At least that&#8217;s how long it used to take.<\/p>\n<p>I used to walk about 2.2 miles to and from work, which took me about 45 minutes each way. I figure that&#8217;s about 2.25 miles. My shoes would wear out in about six months, so that&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/walk_mileage.png\" title=\"Walk mileage for six months.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/walk_mileage.png\" alt=\"Walk mileage for six months.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So it makes sense that my shoes wore out in 6 months, but another new pair of shoes in 6 months is bad when you pay $100 for a pair of shoes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/shoes.jpg\" title=\"New shoes.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/shoes.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"New shoes.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suppose it beats the wear and tear on the car and it also means I get some more exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as my iPod denies it (I heard Swing Out Sister and Scritti Politti on the way to REI to buy my shoes), I am a dude and I&#8217;m not used to spending a lot of money on a pair of shoes that are probably going to wear out in six months. At least that&#8217;s how long it used to take. I used to walk about 2.2 miles to and from work, which took me about 45 minutes each way. I figure that&#8217;s about 2.25 miles. My shoes would wear out in about six months, so that&#8217;s: So it makes sense that my shoes wore out in 6 months, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I just spent $100 on a pair of shoes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}