{"id":1314,"date":"2016-02-10T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:13:01","slug":"barefoot-walking-by-michael-sandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot Walking by Michael Sandler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/13594389\/summary\/124779850\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0307985911.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Barefoot Walking by Michael Sandler\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was sorely disappointed in this book.  Having foot problems, I was hoping for some insights and guidance.  The author&#8217;s lack of scientific statistical understanding left me wondering what else he might not understand.  <\/p>\n<p>For instance, he repeatedly, through anecdote, discusses the advantage of barefoot walking over a sedentary lifestyle.  However, he never shows that going barefoot is better than wearing shoes.  <\/p>\n<p>He also seems to believe that the ground in electronic devices means there is a wire the is connected to the earth.  <\/p>\n<p>The book is more spiritual than it is a solid medical guide.  He has some good motivational text and a lot of advice.  A lot of this can be validated though other sources.  But given the weak buildup of his arguments, I wouldn&#8217;t have faith in his advice without backing it up in other sources.  So not using this text seems to be a reasonable approach.  <\/p>\n<p>If you want the motivation or enjoy the spiritual aspects of the book, it may provide some value for you.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorely disappointed in this book. Having foot problems, I was hoping for some insights and guidance. The author&#8217;s lack of scientific statistical understanding left me wondering what else he might not understand. For instance, he repeatedly, through anecdote, discusses the advantage of barefoot walking over a sedentary lifestyle. However, he never shows that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,35],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-self-help","tag-michael-sandler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}