{"id":32177,"date":"2022-09-11T12:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32177"},"modified":"2022-09-11T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T16:36:37","slug":"on-one-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32177","title":{"rendered":"On one foot..."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/837775\/pro-trump-white-supremacists-have-called-new-balance-sneakers-the-official-shoes-of-white-people\/\">The American sneaker<\/a> manufacturer New Balance has gotten itself into a thorny situation.In a turn of events the company clearly did not anticipate, a statement it made in support of US president-elect Donald Trump\u2019s policy on an international trade agreement has snowballed into a neo-Nazi blogger declaring New Balance the \u201cofficial shoes of white people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>...New Balance certainly isn't responsible for what people who like their shoes claim.<\/p>\n<p>On the other foot...<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I need new tennis shoes, but won&#39;t buy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newbalance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@newbalance<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>New Balance founder &amp; CEO Jim Davis has donated more than $700,000 to MAGA Republicans Rick Scott, Steve Scalise &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NRSC<\/a> Senate Republicans, combined, since June. <\/p>\n<p>DEFUND <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fascism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Fascism<\/a>. BOYCOTT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewBalance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewBalance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X7pJfnWOGe\">https:\/\/t.co\/X7pJfnWOGe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Levine Stearns \u270d\ufe0f (@nancylevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nancylevine\/status\/1568976844443222021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American sneaker manufacturer New Balance has gotten itself into a thorny situation.In a turn of events the company clearly did not anticipate, a statement it made in support of US president-elect Donald Trump\u2019s policy on an international trade agreement has snowballed into a neo-Nazi blogger declaring New Balance the \u201cofficial shoes of white people.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32178,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177\/revisions\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}