{"id":12503,"date":"2013-06-10T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2013-06-10T02:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T09:00:04","slug":"erase-the-blues-with-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/erase-the-blues-with-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Erase the Blues with Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/shoshop.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shoes are more than just something you put on your feet to take a walk. They&#8217;re a fashion statement, and for some they&#8217;re even an addiction. When Imelda Marcos passed away, the politician and wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was remembered for her collection of 2,700 pairs of shoes. Many saw them as symbols of the extravagance of her husband&#8217;s political reign. From shoe dress codes at country clubs in California to a recent lawsuit against Mexican Grill Inc. for allegedly requiring employees to have the cost of a pair of shoes deducted from their paychecks, there&#8217;s a whole lot more to shoes than you can imagine. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/shopping\/california-shoes.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shoe buying tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fit matters! Judge a shoe by how it fits, not its size.<\/li>\n<li>If shoes feel tight, don&#8217;t buy them. There is no such thing as a break-in period.<\/li>\n<li>Shop for shoes \u00a0when your feet are often larger because of swelling at the end of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Allow a half-inch space from the end of your longest toe to the end of the shoe. Try on both shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Select shoes made of materials that breathe such as leather or nylon mesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoes are more than just something you put on your feet to take a walk. They&#8217;re a fashion statement, and for some they&#8217;re even an addiction. When Imelda Marcos passed away, the politician and wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was remembered for her collection of 2,700 pairs of shoes. Many saw them as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}