{"id":178422,"date":"2018-12-02T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/02\/i-have-been-tying-my-shoes-wrong-for-over-50-years\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T02:52:00","slug":"i-have-been-tying-my-shoes-wrong-for-over-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/02\/i-have-been-tying-my-shoes-wrong-for-over-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Been Tying My Shoes Wrong for Over 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bunny Ears Method
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Around tree method<\/i><\/div>\n

When I was 3 or 4, I’m not sure of the exact age, but I was in Juneau, Alaska before I started school, so it was 1965 or 1966 when I learned to tie my shoes.<\/p>\n

I learned to tie my shoes using the “Bunny Ears” method, and started to work on the, “Chasing the bunny around the tree,” method, but being a clever lad, I realized that the knots were the same,
At that point, I started looking at tying my shoes with the  “Squirrel and Tree” method where you make one loop and push the final loop through, but I gave up when I realized shortly after I realized that they created the same knot.<\/p>\n

But my shoes kept getting untied. <\/p>\n

Well, I just figured out what was going on.<\/p>\n

Bows are tied in a, “double knot,” and there are two forms double knot, the square (reef ) knot<\/a>, and the granny knot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The difference is that in the former, it is over-under or under-over, and in the latter it is over-over or under-under.<\/p>\n

If you naturally lead with one hand, and I do, then the, “Chase around the tree,” method naturally produces a square knot, while the, “Bunny ears,” method naturally produces a granny knot.<\/p>\n

I was doing a granny knot, so my shoes were constantly coming untied.<\/p>\n

I am still doing bunny ears, but now I am consciously doing under-over, and my shoes are staying tied.<\/p>\n

Two clever by half, and it only screwed me up for 50 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bunny Ears MethodAround tree method When I was 3 or 4, I’m not sure of the exact age, but I was in Juneau, Alaska before I started school, so it was 1965 or 1966 when I learned to tie my shoes. I learned to tie my shoes using the “Bunny Ears” method, and started to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[422,498,406],"class_list":["post-178422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-family","tag-fashion","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}