{"id":406,"date":"2007-06-12T20:56:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/what-a-croc\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T20:56:44","slug":"what-a-croc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/what-a-croc\/","title":{"rendered":"What a croc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"media\/croc.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"85\" alt=\" \" class=\"illustration\" align=\"left\" \/>Did you know that for as little as 30 quid you could own a pair of unbelievably fashionable pieces of cheap moulded plastic that you could, if you so desired and didn&#8217;t have functional sweat glands, put on your feet ?<\/p>\n<p>A company called &#8220;Crocs&#8221; (not at all a contraction of &#8220;crock of shit&#8221;) has managed to do what I&#8217;ve always wanted to do and sell massively overpriced crap to gullible people whilst taking the piss out of them. <\/p>\n<p>See those holes in the front of the shoe ? Aha! Fooled you! They&#8217;re not holes at all! According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crocs.com\" target=\"_new\">Crocs website<\/a>, these are an &#8220;advanced toe-box ventilation system!&#8221; I&#8217;m not making that up BTW &#8211; check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that for as little as 30 quid you could own a pair of unbelievably fashionable pieces of cheap moulded plastic that you could, if you so desired and didn&#8217;t have functional sweat glands, put on your feet ? A company called &#8220;Crocs&#8221; (not at all a contraction of &#8220;crock of shit&#8221;) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}