{"id":1053,"date":"2017-03-27T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2017-03-27T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:05:01","slug":"marsjulegaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/marsjulegaven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas gift of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will the world last until Easter? Maybe, maybe not \u2013 stranger things have happened before. And besides, it\u2019s not that long until Easter anyway. Besides, time is an oval thing, I\u2019ve heard. The axes aren\u2019t equal. Maybe that\u2019s why the seasons jump around a bit. Just when summer is about to begin, there\u2019s the worst snowstorm in a long time. Also, it\u2019s usually considered commendable to be early. But the thing is, today I actually received the first Christmas present of the year! Yes, indeed. A Christmas present. And she was quite cheerful, the one who brought it and declared it to be an early Christmas gift.<\/p>\n

It so happens that I easily develop a very close and personal relationship with my footwear. And good friends who have stuck with you through thick and thin, wet and dry, are not easily parted with. At least, one must try to gradually get used to the loss. A couple of times it has happened that I have been at the dumpster and rescued old, faithful friends \u2013 amid strong criticism and threats in harsh words, of house bans and worse.<\/p>\n

But sometimes it's just over. When sudden sinkholes and persistent cracks appear in the millimeter-thin layer that is supposed to protect the soles of the feet from everything that could possibly trouble an unprotected foot, it's time to resign and let the garbage truck take what belongs to the garbage truck. Because I am a strong advocate of the universal use of moccasins \u2013 both fish entrails and party they must endure. And they do, but not forever.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, it's not as if I am currently wearing worn-out shoes. No, they still have good durability left. The problem is slippers. I have a pair of indoor slippers. The kind you can shuffle around the living room floor in. And they are probably not exactly new. Do you remember the old Kandahar ski bindings? The ones that had a little clip over the toe, and then a spring that tightened around the heel and held the boot in place in the bindings. If you ignore the spring, imagine the clip replaced by some thin woolen material, and then imagine something loose from the ski dangling around, partly under and partly behind the foot, that\u2019s roughly how the old slippers look. But actually, there's nothing wrong with them. They\u2019re not that old either, and they\u2019re warm and comfortable. But then there are people who have set their eyes on them and decided that it\u2019s advisable to replace perfectly functional foot warmers. Well, I\u2019ll probably get over it eventually. Maybe. But then you also need to have a strategy ready for when the nights get long and the cold sets in. For Christmas presents in March \u2013 that is completely unacceptable, rude, and utterly reprehensible. Namely.<\/p>\n

Now it's just a matter of finding a discreet \u2013 very discreet \u2013 place for the old slippers to hidewhen I take them off. They are just too good to go through every slipper's final journey to the eternal carpet floors. And then there's the fitting and adaption. It's particularly important to get the heel cup properly adapted for quick on and off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St\u00e5r verden til p\u00e5ske? Kanskje, kanskje ikke – rarere ting har hendt f\u00f8r. Og s\u00e5 er det jo heller ikke s\u00e5 lenge til p\u00e5ske. Dessuten, tiden er jo en oval sak, har jeg h\u00f8rt. Aksene er ikke like. Kanskje er … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bjorngrande.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}