{"id":15955,"date":"2010-05-10T19:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15955"},"modified":"2010-05-10T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:09:53","slug":"footwear-industry-dream-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15955","title":{"rendered":"Footwear Industry Dream Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tbw_collector042310_118343c.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tbw_collector042310_118343c.jpg','popup','width=450,height=318,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tbw_collector042310_118343c-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tbw Collector042310 118343C\" \/><\/a><strong>Theo Severson<\/strong> is 32 years old. He is a data-entry worker\/ DJ from Tampa, Florida and he has 292 pairs of sneakers. He&#8217;s proud of the fact that he turned his walk-in closet into a display for his collection.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every morning, he sits on a footstool in his closet and spends 20 minutes deciding which shoes to wear. He&#8217;s formed friendships over conversations that started with, &#8220;Cool shoes.&#8221; . . Severson stores his size 10s in a walk-in closet of his South Tampa home, arranged by brand and style. He keeps all the boxes. There&#8217;s <strong>Adidas<\/strong>, <strong>Reebok<\/strong>, <strong>New Balance<\/strong>, <strong>Puma<\/strong>, <strong>Asics<\/strong> &#8230; And those are just the ones he&#8217;s worn. . . In a separate closet, Severson stashes the 35 pairs of &#8220;top-shelf&#8221; sneakers that have yet to touch asphalt, including Nike Dunk Low skateboarding shoes in Tiffany blue and black, which he bought on Aug. 22, 2005. (He saves the receipts, too.) Severson&#8217;s just waiting for the right occasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right. . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/fashion\/south-tampa-collector-amasses-nearly-300-pairs-of-sneakers\/1089468\" target=\"_blank\">Tampabay.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theo Severson is 32 years old. He is a data-entry worker\/ DJ from Tampa, Florida and he has 292 pairs of sneakers. He&#8217;s proud of the fact that he turned his walk-in closet into a display for his collection. Every morning, he sits on a footstool in his closet and spends 20 minutes deciding which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15957,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955\/revisions\/15957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}