{"id":12347,"date":"2012-09-14T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2020-02-02T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:56:38","slug":"shoe-shopping-for-a-cause-with-the-men-of-delvinia-and-askingcanadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/shoe-shopping-for-a-cause-with-the-men-of-delvinia-and-askingcanadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Shopping for a Cause with the Men of Delvinia and AskingCanadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12350\" title=\"shoeshopping\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shoeshopping1-450x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"210\" \/>They can do wonders for your posture \u2013 not to mention your confidence \u2013 but as the men of Delvinia and <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.askingcanadians.com\">AskingCanadians<\/a> are soon to find out; walking in heels is no easy feat.<\/p>\n<p>To get the boys off on the right foot (pun intended) for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteribbon.ca\/\">White Ribbon Campaign<\/a>\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/walkamiletoronto.ca\/\">Walk a Mile in Her Shoes<\/a> fundraising event, the team attended a Practice and Shoe Shopping Event hosted by Walk a Mile Toronto on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The evening kicked off with a practice session at <a href=\"http:\/\/turflounge.com\/\">Turf Lounge<\/a>, where bartenders served specialty drinks like the Slingback Cocktail and the Blistered Stiletto. Event MC Steve Anthony of <em>CP24 Breakfast<\/em>, along with the restaurant staff, offered tips on how to walk in heels (practice, practice, practice!) and from there we headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payless.com\">Payless Shoesource<\/a> on Yonge Street to outfit the men.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo here, the guys didn\u2019t opt for comfort when they made their final choices. To see the rest of last night\u2019s pictures, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151412322464552.590791.7025509551&amp;type=1\">Walk a Mile in Her Shoes &#8211; Meetup &amp; Shoe Shopping<\/a> photo album on our Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraising update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s donated to our team so far! We&#8217;ve surpassed our original goal of $1,500 and are now close to raising $2,200. To help us gain the top fundraising spot, support our team and sponsor us here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/REwrR2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/REwrR2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They can do wonders for your posture \u2013 not to mention your confidence \u2013 but as the men of Delvinia and AskingCanadians are soon to find out; walking in heels is no easy feat. To get the boys off on the right foot (pun intended) for the White Ribbon Campaign\u2019s upcoming Walk a Mile in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,792],"tags":[594,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22533,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions\/22533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}