{"id":19673,"date":"2013-07-31T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:33:45","slug":"hobsons-choice-footwear-of-the-dammned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hobsons-choice-footwear-of-the-dammned\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobson&#8217;s Choice: Footwear of the Dammned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19677\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birkencrocs.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19677\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19677\" alt=\"BirkenCrocs.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birkencrocs.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BirkenCrocs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A large part of Rock &#8216;n Roll has always been the aesthetics of it. There are innumerable takes on what makes for a cool Look, but seldom are those looks based on things like \u201ccomfort\u201d or \u201cutility.\u201d That\u2019s not to say that a cool look can\u2019t be comfortable, but rather that comfort is a secondary concern. Even &#8220;anti-Looks,&#8221; like that of Neil Young are still making a statement. To paraphrase noted Canadian philosopher Geddy Lee, &#8220;If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the father of 2 young kids, I spend a fair amount of time at playgrounds and get-togethers and such with other parents who may not have the same priorities when choosing what to wear. Plenty are well dressed, even fashionable, but there is a certain pragmatism that take hold when you are getting dressed for a day to be spent hanging out on the sidelines of a little league field or at the playground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings me to my question:<\/strong> <em>Which is the most style-free, utilitarian, and therefore least \u201crock and roll\u201d footwear, Birkenstock or Crocs?<\/em> If forced to wear one or the other, which would you choose? I recognize this is very much a Hobson\u2019s Choice so rest assured, your answer will not be interpreted as an endorsement of one type of footwear, rather it will be seen and an indictment of the other.<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-345\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_345\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blogs\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_345_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"c1346314e6\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which is the most style-free, utilitarian, and therefore least \u201crock and roll\u201d footwear, Birkenstocks or Crocs?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-345-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1359\" name=\"poll_345\" value=\"1359\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1359\">Birkenstock.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1360\" name=\"poll_345\" value=\"1360\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1360\">Crocs.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(345);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(345); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-345-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of Rock &#8216;n Roll has always been the aesthetics of it. There are innumerable takes on what makes for a cool Look, but seldom are those looks based on things like \u201ccomfort\u201d or \u201cutility.\u201d That\u2019s not to say that a cool look can\u2019t be comfortable, but rather that comfort is a secondary <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hobsons-choice-footwear-of-the-dammned\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[569,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}