{"id":735,"date":"2010-07-30T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T13:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=735"},"modified":"2010-07-30T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:33:40","slug":"the-great-shoe-search-a-happy-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/the-great-shoe-search-a-happy-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Shoe Search – A Happy Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Zappos order arrived last night with the top three shoe contenders (see my original shoe search\u00a0post here<\/a>), and we have a clear winner:\u00a0 the Bella-Vita Wren peep-toe pump <\/a>in black.\u00a0 Though I was a little skeptical when I first tried them on last night, I tried them again today, with the dress, and am completely happy.\u00a0 They’re actually comfortable!\u00a0 And they look great with the dress!\u00a0 Hooray!\u00a0 Admittedly, they cost an awful lot of money\u00a0<\/span> [not so much anymore…turns out Amazon has this same shoe for only $42!], but considering that this is the first pair of dressy shoes that I’ve bought in a decade (I literally haven’t bought any dressy shoes – other than the shoes I wore for my wedding –\u00a0since Jim’s and my third date, which was over ten years ago), considering that, I think the price is reasonable.<\/p>\n

The other two pairs of\u00a0shoes that I ordered, which, unfortunately, will be winging their way back to Zappo’s, were the David Tate Starlight <\/a>(in black pleated fabric, because\u00a0grey was sold out in my size),\u00a0and the\u00a0Gabriella\u00a0Rocha Neve <\/a>flat in grey suede; both gorgeous shoes, but neither one fit my poor feet.\u00a0 Thanks to Alyson for those suggestions, especially since my ultimate shoe of choice popped up on the Zappo’s “You Might Also Like” sidebar when I was looking at the David Tate shoe.\u00a0 And thanks to Lizzie and Jean for their awesome suggestions, too; the book pump from Clark’s <\/a>is definitely way cool, just not the perfect option for this dress and this occasion.\u00a0 And, of course, a big thank you to long-suffering Jim, who put up with quite the evening last night as I tried on shoes and complained bitterly about my feet the whole time.<\/p>\n

Now all I need to do is to miraculously get back in shape in the next two weeks…hmmmm…time to go dust off those weights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Zappos order arrived last night with the top three shoe contenders (see my original shoe search\u00a0post here), and we have a clear winner:\u00a0 the Bella-Vita Wren peep-toe pump in black.\u00a0 Though I was a little skeptical when I first tried them on last night, I tried them again today, with the dress, and am … Continue reading The Great Shoe Search – A Happy Ending<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}