{"id":195,"date":"2006-05-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2006-05-22T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T15:30:00","slug":"extraordinary-shoe-stakes-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Shoe Stakes Winner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/640\/DSC00012.0.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/320\/DSC00012.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yesterday afternoon we attended the races, for the first time here, actually, first time in years anywhere. <br \/>These shoes were drawn to my attention by friend V we were with.  What can I say &#8211;  sorry the pic wasn&#8217;t better, but it was on the run.  I suggested to V perhaps I should ask her  to pose for a better one: her reply &#8220;Well, with a face like that I&#8217;m not sure she&#8217;d agree&#8221;  put me off, maybe for the best.   Whether the woman had been having a run of bad luck &#8211; whatever, she looked grim.  Anyway I won&#8217;t show the expression on her face &#8211; just the shoes.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Now, this design had something for everyone<\/em><\/strong>: black canvas laceups, like Converse Hitops, glittery silver laces, lots of sequin glitter appliques, bling I think it&#8217;s called &#8211; and very high white heels with very pointed toes,  covered with glitter of course.   You can see they were worn with jeans, and the jacket I recall was  a very nice camel coloured  suede.    I wonder where she got them&#8230; they might be quite comfortable actually&#8230; Meouw.&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/' target='ext'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon we attended the races, for the first time here, actually, first time in years anywhere. These shoes were drawn to my attention by friend V we were with. What can I say &#8211; sorry the pic wasn&#8217;t better, but it was on the run. 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