{"id":1389,"date":"2010-07-15T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:58","slug":"problem-is-i-kinda-think-converse-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"The problem is, I kinda think Converse is like unto Evil."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/TD9G-8sCoGI\/AAAAAAAAB1k\/mxdsGuqTeDY\/s1600\/seuss_chucks.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/seuss_chucks.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously afraid that the whole Converse\/Chuck Taylor thing is made up of sweastshops and the blood of the underaged innocent (they&#8217;re owned by Nike, and&#8230;), so I never wear <I>real<\/i> Chucks &#8211; my ancient fake *Payless ones work just fine. <\/p>\n<p>But these shoes.<\/p>\n<p>These <i>shoes<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>They tempt me.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I need to rock the <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/dispatches-from-vacationland.html\" target= _blank>Nancy Werlin Zazzle thing<\/a>, and do my own bookish shoes. Or somehow trick Leila into making some for me. (Have you seen that chick&#8217;s sewing? She can somehow make Bookish Anything.)<\/p>\n<p>But, are these not the coolest things? And people, they have Thing 1 and Thing 2 baby shoes. You know I <i>have two nephews<\/i>. Seriously: they are the Thingiest Thing 1 and Thing 2 ever. My babies need those shoes. But, alas, only if Auntie gets up off her tuchus and creates them, and only from Zazzle.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, summer. Are you guys all happily reading out there? Or are you just melted &#8212; whether from heat, or from the monsoons? Hope you&#8217;re enjoying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to the fabbity Miss Kathleen, whose weekly Librarian Roundups on mental_floss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/60911\" target= _blank>just make my Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yes: I know that the shoes that I wear may still be made with labor that is questionable. I guess it&#8217;s a matter of conscious choices outweighing things I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seriously afraid that the whole Converse\/Chuck Taylor thing is made up of sweastshops and the blood of the underaged innocent (they&#8217;re owned by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}