{"id":6407,"date":"2010-07-22T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2010-07-22T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:25:36","slug":"sneakers-obrandes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/sneakers-obrandes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneakers O&#8217;Brandes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t worn sneakers anywhere except the gym <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/up-up-and-away-in-wine-country\/\" target=\"_blank\">(with one hot-air-ballooning exception)<\/a> for more than 20 years. Even when <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/london-day-5-out-of-town\/\" target=\"_blank\">clambering around castle ruins<\/a>, I prefer wearing <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/book-club-a-distant-mirror-part-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\">cork wedges<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/speak-of-sneakers-and-they-doth-appear\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gym sneakers<\/a> that look cute with bike shorts on the elliptical machine don&#8217;t work with my red lipstick and regular clothes. So I&#8217;ve been on the lookout for non-athletic-looking sneaker options, just in case I ever go hot-air ballooning again. I didn&#8217;t expect to find the silver-sequin sneakers of my dreams in Paris, but you never know what will turn up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/goparis.about.com\/od\/shopping\/a\/Paris_sales.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>soldes<\/em><\/a>. They were perfect for a sunset cruise last night in Mallorca &#8212; our last night of vacation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tinypic.com?ref=ok4twi\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i30.tinypic.com\/ok4twi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image and video hosting by TinyPic\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can call me Sneakers O&#8217;Brandes. Don&#8217;t try to catch me when I&#8217;m wearing these.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qrhNoljPtok&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qrhNoljPtok&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t worn sneakers anywhere except the gym (with one hot-air-ballooning exception) for more than 20 years. Even when clambering around castle ruins, I prefer wearing cork wedges. Gym sneakers that look cute with bike shorts on the elliptical machine don&#8217;t work with my red lipstick and regular clothes. So I&#8217;ve been on the lookout&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/sneakers-obrandes\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[519,31,9,39],"tags":[520],"class_list":{"0":"post-6407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family-guy","7":"category-shoes","8":"category-travel","9":"category-tv","10":"tag-dolce-gabbana","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","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=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}