{"id":440,"date":"2009-05-03T22:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/05\/presidential_socks\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:02:51","slug":"presidential_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/05\/presidential_socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through Time magazine&#8217;s photo essay on Obama behind the scenes at the White House and saw this picture of the president with his aides.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/prezsock-344.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/prezsock-thumb-400x264-344.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" alt=\"prezsock.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s wearing the same socks as me! Several years ago I decided that instead of trying to match up socks, I would just buy a bunch of one kind of sock and that way I wouldn&#8217;t have to match them up or worry about losing one. So I have a whole drawer full of this kind of sock. You can&#8217;t tell it from the online picture, but from the picture in the magazine I was able to tell further that this is an earlier version of the sock that you can&#8217;t get anymore (so don&#8217;t bother trying, Jeb). I went to replenish my supply of socks recently and wound up with similar Nike footies, but they are not quite the same. Now I am back to two kinds of socks, but even so I only have to pull out three socks to ensure a match.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have to say that Obama made yet another great decision in picking this particular sock (though maybe Michelle picked them out; they&#8217;re not very expensive). Although Dad called any sock of that style &#8220;sissy socks,&#8221; they are comfortable and they have lasted a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through Time magazine&#8217;s photo essay on Obama behind the scenes at the White House and saw this picture of the president with his aides. He&#8217;s wearing the same socks as me! Several years ago I decided that instead of trying to match up socks, I would just buy a bunch of one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/05\/presidential_socks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Presidential Socks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}