{"id":20233,"date":"2008-11-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/11\/11\/now-its-like-people-buy-sneakers-to-make-money-out-of-them\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T10:00:01","slug":"now-its-like-people-buy-sneakers-to-make-money-out-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081111-01\/?p=20233","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#8217;s like people buy sneakers to make money out of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Where there are sneaker addicts you will have sneaker speculators. And not all the sneakerheads appreciate it. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> Such trading bothers purists like Raymond Chen, 26. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;People used to buy sneakers because they love them,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/living\/2003860682_sneakerhead020.html\">Now it&#8217;s like people buy sneakers to make money out of them.<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Chen, an engineer from Shoreline, owns about 120 pairs of sneakers and spends about $100 a month on his hobby. If there are a number of shoes releasing within the same month, he spends more. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where there are sneaker addicts you will have sneaker speculators. And not all the sneakerheads appreciate it. Such trading bothers purists like Raymond Chen, 26. &#8220;People used to buy sneakers because they love them,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s like people buy sneakers to make money out of them.&#8221; Chen, an engineer from Shoreline, owns about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Where there are sneaker addicts you will have sneaker speculators. And not all the sneakerheads appreciate it. Such trading bothers purists like Raymond Chen, 26. &#8220;People used to buy sneakers because they love them,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s like people buy sneakers to make money out of them.&#8221; Chen, an engineer from Shoreline, owns about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}