{"id":10178,"date":"2006-03-26T15:38:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T20:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/26\/10178.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:48","slug":"hayfoot-strawfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/03\/26\/hayfoot-strawfoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayfoot, Strawfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is, of course, a Very Bad Idea, but I can&#8217;t help thinking, when my Perfect Non-Reader insists on putting the left shoe on the right foot, that with all the flashing lights and spinning wheels on shoes these days, there should be a small transponder system for determining that the wearer has, in fact, put the shoes on the correct feet.\n<p>I suppose if they lit up (or worse, made an unpleasant and loud buzzer noise) when worn wrongways the average four-year-old would frequently wear them wrong just to make the shoes freak out. Some sort of happy music when worn correctly would be the way to go, I suppose. My initial thought, though, was that <I>powerful electromagnets<\/I> would lock the offending shoes together so that the pre-schooler would be unable to move.\n<p><I>Wham!&#8212;thud.<\/I>\n<p>No, probably not a good idea.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, of course, a Very Bad Idea, but I can\u2019t help thinking, when my Perfect Non-Reader insists on putting the left shoe on the right foot, that with all the flashing lights and spinning wheels on shoes these days,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17717,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions\/17717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}