{"id":951,"date":"2013-08-21T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/08\/21\/shoe_blues\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:46:15","slug":"shoe_blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/08\/21\/shoe_blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put on my cycling shoes yesterday and, boy, was I surprised to look down and see this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/cyclingshoe1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of cycling shoe with delaminating sole\"><\/p>\n<p>Shocking, right? They just don&#8217;t make shoes like they used to. Where&#8217;s the pride of craftsmanship, the burning desire to create goods that stand the test of time? I mean, if a pair of cycling shoes will last only 18 years before the sole starts to delaminate, what will be next? A refrigerator that runs only 20 years?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, situations like this are precisely why God invented duct tape:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/cyclingshoe2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of cycling shoe repaired with duct tape\"><\/p>\n<p>I think I can get another decade or two out of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put on my cycling shoes yesterday and, boy, was I surprised to look down and see this: Shocking, right? They just don&#8217;t make shoes like they used to. Where&#8217;s the pride of craftsmanship, the burning desire to create goods that stand the test of time? I mean, if a pair of cycling shoes will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/08\/21\/shoe_blues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shoe Blues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-fashion","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9499,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/9499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}