{"id":1597,"date":"2010-11-02T20:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:06:58","slug":"look-what-the-boot-dragged-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/look-what-the-boot-dragged-in","title":{"rendered":"Look what the boot dragged in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I found out I should try and use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/27\/woolly-socks-to-the-rescue\">woolly socks<\/a> in boots that have the tendency to destroy my feet, I&#8217;ve been looking forward to cold enough a weather to start breaking in my brand-new jungle boots and older-but-hardly-used combat boots.<\/p>\n<p>It is slowly getting there but I couldn&#8217;t wait anymore. Hello, darlings:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1600\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1600\" title=\"Combat boot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101102_boot.jpg\" alt=\"Combat boot\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101102_boot.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101102_boot-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steel capped boots, for combatting&#8230; people who try to cut me in line?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(It&#8217;s the same pair of socks as in the photo of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/27\/woolly-socks-to-the-rescue\">jungle boots<\/a>. I have a ton &#8212; or at least a couple of kilos &#8212; of woolly socks and I don&#8217;t even like blue, but those seem a good thickness. I will have to experiment.)<\/p>\n<p>The boots are lovely but man, the amount of stuff they accumulate! Gravel, leaves, plums&#8230; When I got home today I noticed a twig roughly the size of a pinkie sticking out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1598\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1598\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1598\" title=\"Loot of the day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101102_stick.jpg\" alt=\"Stick\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101102_stick.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101102_stick-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loot of the day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Dead squirrels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I found out I should try and use woolly socks in boots that have the tendency to destroy my feet, I&#8217;ve been looking forward to cold enough a weather to start breaking in my brand-new jungle boots and older-but-hardly-used combat boots. It is slowly getting there but I couldn&#8217;t wait anymore. Hello, darlings: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-spur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}