{"id":215,"date":"2006-07-18T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/?p=215"},"modified":"2006-07-18T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T19:40:08","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"End of An Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becky could not bear the sight of them. The guys I play basketball with were willing to buy themselves a new pair just so I could have their old pair. So it is after 13 years of solid performance and exceptional comfort, I have finally broken down and bought a new pair of basketball shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/becky_jere\/images\/new_shoes.jpg\" alt=\"new shoes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The old shoes are in the foreground. See that blue area where the pinky toe would be? That&#8217;s actually the sole on the inside of the shoe as seen through a large hole in the shoe. Despite their feeble looks, the tread on the bottom was still in great condition. I should have paid to have new tops put on the old treads.<\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten how &#8220;fun&#8221; trying on different sizes of shoes was. Especially when one foot is half a size larger than the other one and you don&#8217;t have any socks with you so you have to wear those hose (which don&#8217;t even come close to the 2 pairs of socks you normally wear with your basketball shoes).<\/p>\n<p>But the deed is done. As soon as the new ones came home, Becky made sure the old ones found their way to the garbage outside. I think she&#8217;d been looking forward to that day for a long time. Luckily I snapped this picture just before the &#8220;retirement&#8221;. Anyway, at this rate I&#8217;m good until 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky could not bear the sight of them. The guys I play basketball with were willing to buy themselves a new pair just so I could have their old pair. So it is after 13 years of solid performance and exceptional comfort, I have finally broken down and bought a new pair of basketball shoes. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of An Era<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}