{"id":2212,"date":"2009-09-02T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:47:00","slug":"speak-of-sneakers-and-they-doth-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/speak-of-sneakers-and-they-doth-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak of Sneakers and They Doth Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after I posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/up-up-and-away-in-wine-country\/\" target=\"_blank\">only known photo of me in sneakers<\/a>, a package arrived bearing new sneakers! They are an incredibly thoughtful gift from gorgeous soon-to-be-blogging-again <a href=\"http:\/\/observationmode.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ENC<\/a> (check her blog TOMORROW). When I saw her <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/a-visit-with-kristin-londgren\/\" target=\"_blank\">in L.A. recently<\/a>, I admired her colorful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappos.com\/product\/7480195\/color\/174550\" target=\"_blank\">Onitsuka Tiger<\/a> sneakers.A\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how she weaseled my shoe size out of me, but when I got back to New York, my very own pair was waiting for me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2214\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2214\" title=\"sneakers1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sneakers1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"They came with a spare pair of purple laces.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sneakers1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sneakers1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They came with a spare pair of purple laces.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2215\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2215\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2215\" title=\"sneakers2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sneakers2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Much more stylish than my white New Balance pair.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sneakers2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sneakers2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Much more stylish than my white New Balance pair.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ENC is one of the most generous people I know. She helps me with <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-guilt-is-killing-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshop<\/a>, prevents me from sending angry emails, bakes muffins for me and now she sends sneakers too. I heart you, ENC! Thank you for everything! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after I posted the only known photo of me in sneakers, a package arrived bearing new sneakers! They are an incredibly thoughtful gift from gorgeous soon-to-be-blogging-again ENC (check her blog TOMORROW). When I saw her in L.A. recently, I admired her colorful Onitsuka Tiger sneakers.A\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how she weaseled my shoe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/speak-of-sneakers-and-they-doth-appear\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83,31],"tags":[223],"class_list":{"0":"post-2212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gorgeous-friends","8":"category-shoes","9":"tag-asics","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}