{"id":1233,"date":"2010-06-27T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2010-08-07T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T14:34:50","slug":"woolly-socks-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/27\/woolly-socks-to-the-rescue","title":{"rendered":"Woolly socks to the rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought new boots<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSCN0210-e1277639506712.jpg\" alt=\"Jungle boots\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re US army jungle boots. They&#8217;re so nice&#8230; built-in air conditioning* and everything!<\/p>\n<p>I have a problem with pretty much all new shoes: they scrape the back of my ankle raw. In addition to these new summer boots, I have really nice leather &#8220;combat boots&#8221; that I haven&#8217;t worn much because I can&#8217;t walk for long distances.<\/p>\n<p>But, I was determined to wear my new jungle boots (after destroying my heel once and realising that yeah, these shoes have the same problem) and I googled for tips. Some people had told they always broke boots in by wearing woolly socks for a while. So that&#8217;s what I did.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSCN0211-e1277639460226.jpg\" alt=\"Boots with woolly socks\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That does the trick! Too bad it&#8217;s summertime because it gets pretty warm in there&#8230; I&#8217;m looking forward to autumn and winter for once! (Now I&#8217;ll also get to break in my &#8220;old&#8221; leather boots when it&#8217;s cold and wet and I don&#8217;t want to wear shoes with holes in them.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:smaller\">* Little ventilation\/draining holes right above the sole. Now I realised you can actually see them in the photo: they show quite clearly in the bottom photo, the shoe on the right.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought new boots They&#8217;re US army jungle boots. They&#8217;re so nice&#8230; built-in air conditioning* and everything! I have a problem with pretty much all new shoes: they scrape the back of my ankle raw. In addition to these new summer boots, I have really nice leather &#8220;combat boots&#8221; that I haven&#8217;t worn much because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}