{"id":219,"date":"2007-05-28T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2015-03-11T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:30:31","slug":"skateshoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"skateshoes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>what is a skateshoe? is it defined by its functionality or is it just a special look?<br \/>\nsince the beginning there were shoes claiming to be made for skateboarding. but skateboarders had a long tradition in using stuff that was not especially made for skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p>skateboarders had freely chosen what they wanted to skate, what worked and what fitted. may it terrain or clothing.<\/p>\n<p>products from nike, converse, adidas or puma got used for decades, but these companies were never aware of skateboarding. it wasn&#8217;t a market for them and they didn&#8217;t support it.<\/p>\n<p>nowadays it is different. these same industries see a market and <a title=\"sub-stance skateboarding \u00bb How Nike Conquered Skateboard Culture.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/?p=145\" rel=\"external\">buy themself into the scene<\/a> to give their mass products a more alternative image. and skateboarders seem to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>so i searched for a real alternative, <a title=\"Vegetarian Shoes\" href=\"http:\/\/store.straightwear.de\/Women\/Schuhe\/Canada-Sneaker-schwarz::15.html\" rel=\"external\">and found it at &#8220;vegetarian shoes&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m very happy with this shoe. and it&#8217;s environmentally friendly, vegan (vegetarian?), made in portugal and perfect for skateboarding.<br \/>\nunfortunately\u00a0as most skateshoes they take some time to get broken in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what is a skateshoe? is it defined by its functionality or is it just a special look? since the beginning there were shoes claiming to be made for skateboarding. but skateboarders had a long tradition in using stuff that was not especially made for skateboarding. skateboarders had freely chosen what they wanted to skate, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skateboarding","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sub-stance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}