{"id":543,"date":"2008-06-20T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-11-10T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:30:22","slug":"the-way-of-the-croc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"The way of the Croc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the later days of my Mads pregnancy, summer was in full force &#8211; even in SF &#8211; and my poor feet were swollen beyond belief that even my beloved flip-flops were getting uncomfortable. So, for about 30 minutes, I was entertaining the idea of buying a pair of crocs so that I wouldn&#8217;t have to go barefoot to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>So, we all know that they&#8217;re not the most beautiful shoe, but I was desperate. <em>Maybe if I bought them in a super cute color, like fuschia, it wouldn&#8217;t be so bad.<\/em> Yeah, right. I just couldn&#8217;t bring myself to do it. And that was the end of those 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>No offense to all you Croc wearers&#8230;bien sur.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to present day, summer is here and Mads needs summer shoes pronto. At first she refused to try them on at the store, but now, I can&#8217;t get her to wear any other pair of shoes. (She&#8217;s got a pair on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piperlime.com\/browse\/product.do?cid=27968&#038;pid=508128&#038;scid=508128002\">converse slip ons<\/a> and a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/shop2.vans.com\/wcsstore\/Vans\/images\/products\/6281171B.JPG\">vans<\/a>.) She fondly calls them her &#8220;pink shoes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dacroc.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1213980713]\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dacroc.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" alt=\"dacroc.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piperlime.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m even thinking about getting her some jibbitz! She&#8217;d be over the moon if we got her <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.jibbitz.com\/store\/Finding_Nemo_90\/Nemo_845\/\">these<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the later days of my Mads pregnancy, summer was in full force &#8211; even in SF &#8211; and my poor feet were swollen beyond belief that even my beloved flip-flops were getting uncomfortable. So, for about 30 minutes, I was entertaining the idea of buying a pair of crocs so that I wouldn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}