{"id":258,"date":"2004-07-30T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-07-31T00:16:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T07:16:16","slug":"nike-must-get-a-really-great-deal-on-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Nike must get a really great deal on fabric."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either that, or they think that runners are gigantic people.<\/p>\n<p>I registered for a 10K (without running a step in months) since they promised that I&#8217;d get to hear some 80&#8217;s one-hit-wonder bands. But it&#8217;s a Nike thing, and they&#8217;re making us wear their shirts. You can guess that living in Nike&#8217;s backyard makes a lot of people a bit jaded about the place. Right now I don&#8217;t think I care either way about them but I do hate that they&#8217;re more a fashion house that changes shoe styles and clothing every few months.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is that I didn&#8217;t check the shirt when I picked it up and it&#8217;s HUGE. Hey, Nike, we&#8217;re runners, not basketball players. A men&#8217;s large should be a bit small on me, and I&#8217;m only 5&#8242; 10&#8243; and 165 lbs. It shouldn&#8217;t hang down below my crotch. I went back and tried exchanging it for  one that fit (a men&#8217;s small) but they weren&#8217;t having any of it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously, it&#8217;s  a Drifit shirt with sticky printing on it. I&#8217;m never going to wear it as a night shirt so it&#8217;s going into the recycle bin if it&#8217;s too big. Not a great way to spend a $35 registration fee for a run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either that, or they think that runners are gigantic people. I registered for a 10K (without running a step in months) since they promised that I&#8217;d get to hear some 80&#8217;s one-hit-wonder bands. But it&#8217;s a Nike thing, and they&#8217;re making us wear their shirts. You can guess that living in Nike&#8217;s backyard makes a lot of people a bit jaded about the place. Right now I don&#8217;t think I care either way about them but I do hate that they&#8217;re more a fashion house that changes shoe styles and clothing every few months. The worst part is that I didn&#8217;t check the shirt when I picked it up and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nike must get a really great deal on fabric.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","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\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}