{"id":15984,"date":"2025-09-22T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:31:15","slug":"shoe-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15984","title":{"rendered":"Shoe news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shoe news? New shoes? See what I did ther&#8230; Oh. You did? OK, well then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of May 2024 (yes, just last year) I bought a new pair of walking shoes\/boots. Someone on this Internet (I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;ve forgotten who you are) recommended Grisport as a make and after browsing their website I bought a pair of Fuse Lowland Trekking Boots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fuse-lowland-trekking-boot-crazy-horse-leather-p4767-395716_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15985\" style=\"width:453px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fuse-lowland-trekking-boot-crazy-horse-leather-p4767-395716_medium.jpg 665w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fuse-lowland-trekking-boot-crazy-horse-leather-p4767-395716_medium-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fuse-lowland-trekking-boot-crazy-horse-leather-p4767-395716_medium-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, here we are, 16 months later and I have to replace them so I&#8217;ve bought exactly the same again. Now you might think that&#8217;s a bit bonkers, spending a fair wedge of dosh on a pair of shoes\/boots that lasted a mere 16 months but over the weekend I sat down with a spreadsheet and calculated those boots and I have covered 5,124Km (or 3,184 miles if you prefer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s too shabby really &#8211; 5,124Km (3,184 miles) is a lot of wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoe news? New shoes? See what I did ther&#8230; Oh. You did? OK, well then. At the end of May 2024 (yes, just last year)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15992,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}