{"id":10190,"date":"2015-04-26T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10190"},"modified":"2015-04-26T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:24:47","slug":"we-have-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10190","title":{"rendered":"We Have a Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4989\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiclas-vegas.jpg\" alt=\"userpic=las-vegas\" width=\"98\" height=\"92\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>No, I&#8217;m not referring to gambling while I&#8217;m in Vegas, although I did win 50\u00a2 on a 5\u00a2 bet at the El Cortez. Rather, I&#8217;m referring to my feet.<\/p>\n<p>For the longest time, I&#8217;ve had a problem with my feet when I walked too far. Invariably I would start, and by the end of the day I&#8217;d have blisters on my littlest toes. Different sneakers, multiple socks, bandaids, moleskin &#8212; nothing worked. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I walked from the Tropicana to Spring Hill Road (basically, Fashion Square\/Treasure Island) and back. That&#8217;s about 5 miles. I did slightly less on Friday &#8212; from Tropicana to Caesars. Not a single blister. What did it? Two simple things: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.injinji.com\/\">Injinji Toe Socks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibramfivefingers.com\/index.htm\">Vibram Five Fingers shoes<\/a>. The only thing sore are my heels, and that&#8217;s because the Vibrams have little padding. I&#8217;ll wear sneakers with toe socks tomorrow to give them a day of rest.<\/p>\n<p>This confirms the test from ACSAC, where I wore the Vibrams and didn&#8217;t have a single blister.<\/p>\n<p>We have a winner. I think I&#8217;m going to go out and get a third pair of Vibrams when I&#8217;m back in LA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not referring to gambling while I&#8217;m in Vegas, although I did win 50\u00a2 on a 5\u00a2 bet at the El Cortez. Rather, I&#8217;m referring to my feet. For the longest time, I&#8217;ve had a problem with my feet when I walked too far. Invariably I would start, and by the end of the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10190\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status","tag-las-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10191,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions\/10191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}