{"id":5621,"date":"2019-11-14T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:50","slug":"244-why-are-those-shoes-in-that-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/244-why-are-those-shoes-in-that-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"#244 Why are those shoes in that tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I\u2019ve spent a lot of time over the years either driving or flying along Hwy 20 as it passes alongside the Malhuer River in Oregon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d had an adventure a few years back when the exhaust on my 100 HP Cub decided to come apart while I was on my way to an Airshow in Ontario.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That adventure is described in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/2019\/243-incident-at-drewsey\/\"><b>Incident at Drewsy<\/b><\/a>\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was a few years later and a few miles away from where that incident occurred that I happened to see a couple of \u201cshoe trees\u201d alongside the road.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d seen such trees all over the country from time to time, but it was this this particular citing that made me curious.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Where did the custom of festooning a tree with shoes come from?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5622\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5622\" src=\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_0841-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can just spot the red pumps on the left side and high on this picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019s occurred to me that some of my readers might know, so I\u2019ll welcome any comments about where this custom originated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But there is something kind of intriguing and kind of artistic about shoes dangling from the branches of a tree.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I happened to notice that among the shoes hanging from this tree were a pair of bright red pumps so either a young lady was in on the tradition or a bishop from the local Catholic congregation was involved.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm, come to think of it, he has rather petite feet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I\u2019ve spent a lot of time over the years either driving or flying along Hwy 20 as it passes alongside the Malhuer River in Oregon.\u00a0 I\u2019d had an adventure a few years back when the exhaust on my 100 HP Cub decided to come apart while I was on my way to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,48,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}