{"id":8496,"date":"2017-03-30T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2017-04-12T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T20:51:56","slug":"daily_862_-_shoelaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/daily_862_-_shoelaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 862 &#8211; shoelaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0862_shoelaces.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nMy most comfortable shoes have slippery laces. For years I have simply tied the loops in an extra overhand knot to keep the laces from coming loose, and then had to fiddle with the knot afterwards when I wanted to untie it.<\/p>\n<p>No more! I took 5 minutes to learn to tie a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieggen.com\/shoelace\/betterbowknot.htm\">Better Bow Knot<\/a>. It never comes loose (based on a week&#8217;s worth of testing) and yet I can undo it by simply pulling at the free ends, like with a normal bow not.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I wait so long to spend those 5 minutes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My most comfortable shoes have slippery laces. For years I have simply tied the loops in an extra overhand knot to keep the laces from coming loose, and then had to fiddle with the knot afterwards when I wanted to untie it. No more! I took 5 minutes to learn to tie a Better Bow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}