{"id":369,"date":"2011-02-25T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp\/?p=369"},"modified":"2011-02-25T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:54:59","slug":"daddy-i-love-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2011\/02\/daddy-i-love-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy I love this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What with all my research into barefooting and minimal shoes, it&#8217;s bothered me that many of the shoes that Oscar wears are kind of clunky and inflexible, or have a heel.<\/p>\n<p>We know about Soft Star Shoes in the US, but there isn&#8217;t anywhere in the UK that does anything like that for adults that I&#8217;m aware of. Terra Plana do some nice shoes, but are on the pricy side.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Hannah found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisy-roots.com\/\">Daisy Roots<\/a>, who make the sort of footwear you see on toddlers, but do it up to a size suitable for 3-4 year olds. We ordered a couple of pairs, and they arrived today.<\/p>\n<p>I put a pair on Oscar when he got back and he immediately wanted to get out of the car and try them out. Here&#8217;s a video of him:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPLNaHgUZaQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He literally just ran in circles, laughing and shouted &#8220;Daddy, I love this!&#8221;. They might be a bit big, as he&#8217;s scuffing a bit as he runs but the next size down seemed a little too small.<\/p>\n<p>We got two pairs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisy-roots.com\/shoe-with-train-p-271.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daisy-roots.com\/image\/TRN02.jpg?w=665\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisy-roots.com\/tractor-navy-p-299.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daisy-roots.com\/image\/TRA%200.1.jpg?w=665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, highly recommended if unfortunately limited in the long-term. The largest size will be fine for quite a while, giving us a chance to find an alternative longer term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with all my research into barefooting and minimal shoes, it&#8217;s bothered me that many of the shoes that Oscar wears are kind of clunky and inflexible, or have a heel. We know about Soft Star Shoes in the US, but there isn&#8217;t anywhere in the UK that does anything like that for adults that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2011\/02\/daddy-i-love-this\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[51,105,119,123],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-oscar","tag-daisy-roots","tag-oscar","tag-running","tag-shoes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9qMPF-5X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}