{"id":49451,"date":"2023-06-24T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T03:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49451"},"modified":"2023-06-26T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T03:56:49","slug":"dad-brog-114-of-course-she-picked-the-js","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49451","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#114): Of course she picked the J\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Welp, this post didn\u2019t age well<\/a>: a long time ago, apparently back in 2017, I made a post questioning the existence of Air Jordan shoes, for toddlers.\u00a0 Like, Air Jordans were developed to be Michael Jordan\u2019s signature line of athletic shoes for when he was in the act of playing basketball, but almost instantly they became anything but athletic shoes to anyone other than MJ or any other basketball players who wanted to be like Mike or were also under contract to Nike.<\/span><\/p>\n

They became status symbols, reasons why people were killed, eventually becoming acceptable as formal wear and\/or a stylish option that could be paired with just about anything at all and be met with an approving nod.\u00a0 Eventually J\u2019s would be released for women, and much like it was back in like 1988, Jordans were about as popular as they\u2019ve ever been, if not more than they were when they burst onto the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then I saw a kid that could barely walk, rocking some MJ 12s, and was like wtf, why does a toddler need J\u2019s???<\/span><\/p>\n

But this was six years ago, and now I have a three-year old enrolled in a hip-hop dance class for the next season of her dance school\u2019s year.\u00a0 No tap shoes or ballet shoes for this class, it\u2019s about sneakers.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m probably a little bit more of a sneakerhead than mythical wife is, but she knows that J\u2019s are still the cream of the crop when it comes to stylish sneakers, so naturally she trolls the shit out of my by deliberately steering my daughter into wanting some J\u2019s of her own.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as much as I didn\u2019t want to plunk down the $60 for a pair of shoes that most likely won\u2019t even be able to fit her by the end of the dance year, the idea of my own kid rocking her own J\u2019s wasn\u2019t entirely undesirable.\u00a0 Naturally, when Nike opened their Disney vault and basically made every iteration of Air Jordans available and customizable to the Nth degree, the 9-year old in me that loved MJ 1\u2019s got my own pair, and in spite of the price tag, I like the idea of my kid having a pair of her own 1\u2019s, regardless of how absurd it is that there are J\u2019s for toddlers in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

So here we have it, it took some steering from the wife, but the seed was planted in #1\u2019s head, and she picked out the MJ 1\u2019s out of several options that she also picked, and through process of elimination, naturally landed on the J\u2019s as her pick for hip-hop class.<\/span><\/p>\n

$60 poorer, but at least I\u2019ll have pride of having some matching kicks with my kid, doubly when she outgrows them, and bequeaths them to #2 to where they\u2019ll get a second life.\u00a0 And if I can take care of them well enough, maybe I\u2019ll sit on them to where I can flip them on like StockX in the future for its original investment in like 15 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welp, this post didn\u2019t age well: a long time ago, apparently back in 2017, I made a post questioning the existence of Air Jordan shoes, for toddlers.\u00a0 Like, Air Jordans were developed to be Michael Jordan\u2019s signature line of athletic shoes for when he was in the act of playing basketball, but almost instantly they … Continue reading Dad Brog (#114): Of course she picked the J\u2019s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,100,193,192,129,83],"class_list":["post-49451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-dad","tag-kids","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49453,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49451\/revisions\/49453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}