{"id":15568,"date":"2009-08-07T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2009\/08\/07\/goodbye-shoes\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:43","slug":"goodbye-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2009\/08\/07\/goodbye-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1117\/goodbye-shoes0.jpg.webp\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" width=\"174\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0\">The fella and I were in Brighton last weekend, where I was finally able to get back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk\/\" title=\"Vegetarian Shoes in Brighton, UK\">Vegetarian Shoes<\/a>. My trainers were suffering from &#8220;hole in the sole&#8221; and my boots had a crack right across the bottom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I&#8217;m not a clothes shopper, but even I will acknowledge that when the rain gets in your shoes, you are either desperately poor or just being stubborn. So I gave in, since I had this chance to shoe-shop in good conscience (as much as possible; man-made materials still have their issues).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">How sad, though, to leave behind my old shoes. They&#8217;ve carried me through years of life in Scotland, summers and winters in Canada, and on trips to Spain, Italy, and France. All those miles, all those moments.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Bye-bye. Hopefully someone will be able to fix you up into something useful, and those trod-in memories will somehow make it better.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1117\/goodbye-shoes1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fella and I were in Brighton last weekend, where I was finally able to get back to Vegetarian Shoes. My trainers were suffering from &#8220;hole in the sole&#8221; and my boots had a crack right across the bottom. I&#8217;m not a clothes shopper, but even I will acknowledge that when the rain gets in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}