{"id":2491,"date":"2010-07-09T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2010-07-09T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T03:39:00","slug":"socks-and-what-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"Socks and&#8230; what, exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4778444737\/\" title=\"Danny Kaye by emisanboo, on Flickr\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/4778444737_8306b51ea9_m.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Danny Kaye\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4778445105\/\" title=\"Danny Kaye shoes by emisanboo, on Flickr\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/4778445105_c9a9bf2722_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"172\" alt=\"Danny Kaye shoes\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a><br \/>\nDanny Kaye, you know I love you.  But what the HELL do you have on your feet?  It&#8217;s a joke right?  Wait, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vme.net\/spaceshoe\/kaye.html\" target=\"blank\">it&#8217;s not?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was unaware of the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vme.net\/spaceshoe\/index.html?HOME=HOME\" target=\"blank\">custom molded shoes<\/a> before now.  While this started out as an &#8220;OMGWTF&#8221; post, the more I looked at the shoes, the more I think that maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/yvm.net\/vme\/custom-shoe\/\" target=\"blank\">that aqua one with the cutouts<\/a> might be a good way to show off the right pair of hand-knitted socks.  It also seems that manly man Steve McQueen wore them, <a href=\"http:\/\/stvmcqueen.tripod.com\/geshoes2.html\" target=\"blank\">much as it mortified his first wife.<\/a>  Plus the old building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/niznoz\/126905431\/\" target=\"blank\">seems to have some musical history associated with it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there you go.  That&#8217;s what I learned today.  If nothing else, when I&#8217;m asked about Danny Kaye&#8217;s 40 pairs of custom footwear on Jeopardy, I&#8217;ll be ready.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Kaye, you know I love you. But what the HELL do you have on your feet? It&#8217;s a joke right? Wait, it&#8217;s not? I was unaware of the world of custom molded shoes before now. While this started out as an &#8220;OMGWTF&#8221; post, the more I looked at the shoes, the more I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}