{"id":1917,"date":"2014-05-21T06:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisaj.com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2014-05-21T06:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:42:44","slug":"shoe-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shoes\"There was probably a good decade when I didn’t tie my shoes if I wasn’t exercising. \u00a0Probably longer than a decade. \u00a0All of high school for sure. \u00a0All of college too.<\/p>\n

I had some great Chuck Taylors<\/a> in high school. \u00a0I’d wear them all fall and winter, and when it got nice outside I’d rip the tongues out of them and cut off the rubber toe part to make sandals. \u00a0They were amazing, and it was one of those things I did that no one else I knew did. \u00a0Unique. \u00a0Felt good at that age and time.<\/p>\n

Later in high school I had a pair of “Duck Tape Shoes” as my winter shoes. \u00a0I wrapped old running shoes in duck tape, sealed the seams with a lighter and used them as boots. \u00a0Boots with no traction at all, but boots.<\/p>\n

Even after college, I took my old work shoes, some black leather ones from target (ok fake leather ones from Target) and untied the laces, put knots at the end, and wore them as everyday shoes. \u00a0These ones added an inch to my height and made me feel good.<\/p>\n

For some reason now though, I can’t go out without tying my shoes. \u00a0I need them to be tied otherwise it feels weird. \u00a0All those times people said to pick up my feet, it was my untied shoes. \u00a0I can’t stand the drag now though.<\/p>\n

Growth as a human?<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

______________________________________<\/p>\n

P.S. – Give me the standard “Around the Tree” way to tie my shoes. \u00a0That Bunny Ears method, I roll that way. \u00a0Uncivilized I tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was probably a good decade when I didn’t tie my shoes if I wasn’t exercising. \u00a0Probably longer than a decade. \u00a0All of high school for sure. \u00a0All of college too. I had some great Chuck Taylors in high school. \u00a0I’d wear them all fall and winter, and when it got nice outside I’d rip…Continue reading Shoe Evolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[580,4,579,581],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_life","tag-laces","tag-meisaj","tag-shoes","tag-tying-shoes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DKK0-uV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meisaj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}