{"id":12614,"date":"2009-05-25T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/25\/asics\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:31:48","slug":"asics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/25\/asics\/","title":{"rendered":"Asics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Why are <em>Asics<\/em> running shoes so called?&#0160; After purchasing a pair on Saturday I was pleased to&#0160;discover&#0160;that <em>Asics<\/em> is an acronym for <em>anima sana in corpore sano.<\/em>&#0160;&#0160;The&#0160;standard tag is <em>mens sana in corpore sano<\/em> (A sound mind in a sound body), but <em>Msics<\/em> doesn&#39;t quite make it acronym-wise.&#0160; I am not enough of a Latinist so say whether <em>anima sana in corpore sano<\/em> occurs in any classical author.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If water is the philosopher&#39;s drink (Thoreau), and running the philosopher&#39;s sport, then Asics may be the philosopher&#39;s running shoe.&#0160; But&#0160;the mileage on my Asics Gel-Nimbuses is still too low (8 miles) to say for sure.&#0160; So far, they seem very good in terms of stability and cushioning.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A good running maxim: &quot;Trash your shoes before they trash you.&quot;&#0160; Frugality has its limits.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Asics running shoes so called?&#0160; After purchasing a pair on Saturday I was pleased to&#0160;discover&#0160;that Asics is an acronym for anima sana in corpore sano.&#0160;&#0160;The&#0160;standard tag is mens sana in corpore sano (A sound mind in a sound body), but Msics doesn&#39;t quite make it acronym-wise.&#0160; I am not enough of a Latinist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/25\/asics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}