{"id":958,"date":"2008-11-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2008-11-20T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:40:00","slug":"shoe-hopes-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/shoe-hopes-dashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Hopes Dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited to get the much-criticized YSL Trooper Pumps when I saw they were on sale.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saksfifthavenue.com\/main\/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524446198969&amp;FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=282574492703513&amp;ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474399545537&amp;bmUID=1227213606529&amp;ev19=1:16\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSXLa3m5eGI\/AAAAAAAAGpA\/QJgCRn6Xnf4\/s320\/0459205970234R_300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270842601371170914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>But then I saw they were in whole sizes only. WTF? I&#8217;m usually a 36.5,  so a 36 or a 37 just won&#8217;t do. This was a problem for me when I finally found my dream Doc Martens with heels. The 36 was too small and the 37 was too big.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSXMNdlHPuI\/AAAAAAAAGpI\/igtvjsb37PQ\/s1600-h\/boots0827.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSXMNdlHPuI\/AAAAAAAAGpI\/igtvjsb37PQ\/s320\/boots0827.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270843470557691618\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Clearly the No. 1 way to get me to fall in love with a pair of shoes is for other people to call them ugly, because both these shoes have been badmouthed all over the blogosphere. I feel that just gives them more personality. Speaking of shoes with personality and size issues, here&#8217;s the long overdue update on my <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/kiss-is-just-kiss.html\">fish feet<\/a> obsession. I finally got those shoes on eBay in a size 6.5, which is the size of my other two pairs of Louboutins. Bizarrely, they felt too tight anyway, so I figured I&#8217;d get them stretched. As with any easy task, I&#8217;ve put off doing that for about six months. That&#8217;s not bad, really. I&#8217;ve put off other things for six years. Anyway, I promise I will try to get that stretching business done next month, so that I can finally experience fish-feet joy. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited to get the much-criticized YSL Trooper Pumps when I saw they were on sale. But then I saw they were in whole sizes only. WTF? I&#8217;m usually a 36.5, so a 36 or a 37 just won&#8217;t do. This was a problem for me when I finally found my dream Doc Martens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/shoe-hopes-dashed\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[57,21,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fish-feet","7":"category-sales","8":"category-shoes","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}