{"id":1512,"date":"2009-04-01T22:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:04:10","slug":"a410-jibbitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"#a410 :: Jibbitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1513\" title=\"040109\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040109-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"040109\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040109-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040109-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040109.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Put aside for a second how thoroughly <i>doofy<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crocs.com\">Crocs<\/a> can seem, here is an entire empire built on two simple facts: a) Americans&#8217; uncanny knack for making,\u00a0buying and trashing once-used disposable crap and b) our love of cheap customization.<\/p>\n<p>You stuff Jibbitz into the holes of your <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=745\">Crocs<\/a> to declare your individuality to other people who care about that sort of thing. Either that or you bug your parents into buying a bunch for you.<\/p>\n<p>At a buck or two each, what they hell, they&#8217;re a lot of fun until they fall out and you never see them again.<\/p>\n<p>And then you bug your parents some more, and the cycle of crap rolls on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put aside for a second how thoroughly doofy Crocs can seem, here is an entire empire built on two simple facts: a) Americans&#8217; uncanny knack for making,\u00a0buying and trashing once-used disposable crap and b) our love of cheap customization. You stuff Jibbitz into the holes of your Crocs to declare your individuality to other people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adornment","category-fetish","category-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}