{"id":337,"date":"2007-10-15T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T23:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/boots\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T23:15:26","slug":"boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/15\/boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2258a.jpg\" title=\"old_2258a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2258a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Salomon delamination!\" title=\"Salomon delamination!\" \/><\/a>The old Salomon boots died in Japan this September.\u00c2\u00a0 The EVA midsole crumbled, leaving the rubber outsole detached from the upper back to about the ball of my foot.\u00c2\u00a0 They stayed together long enough for me to get back to Hawaii without the sole becoming completely detached and making me look like a Charlie Chaplin character.\u00c2\u00a0 Age was the factor here, not wear.\u00c2\u00a0 The outsole was not heavily worn and hadn&#8217;t become hard with age yet.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gore-Tex was still leak-proof and the leather was fine.\u00c2\u00a0 The rubberized scuff-patch on the toes had started to peel and crack over a year ago.\u00c2\u00a0 I picked up a pair of Danners for $140 to replace the Salomons, but thusfar haven&#8217;t tested them &#8211; hopefully they won&#8217;t be as slippery on snow and ice as the slick-as-$h!t Salomons were.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are the old boots:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2256a.jpg\" title=\"old_2256a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2256a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Salomon boots\" title=\"Salomon boots\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2257a.jpg\" title=\"old_2257a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2257a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"EVA failure\" title=\"EVA failure\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2260a.jpg\" title=\"old_2260a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2260a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Salomon sole\" title=\"Salomon sole\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2261a.jpg\" title=\"old_2261a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/old_2261a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sole wear\" title=\"Sole wear\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the new boots:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/new_2255a.jpg\" title=\"new_2255a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/new_2255a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"New Danner boots\" title=\"New Danner boots\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/new_2254a.jpg\" title=\"new_2254a.jpg\"><img vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/new_2254a.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Danner sole\" title=\"Danner sole\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Salomon boots died in Japan this September.\u00c2\u00a0 The EVA midsole crumbled, leaving the rubber outsole detached from the upper back to about the ball of my foot.\u00c2\u00a0 They stayed together long enough for me to get back to Hawaii without the sole becoming completely detached and making me look like a Charlie Chaplin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-boots","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}