{"id":17864,"date":"2014-04-20T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17864"},"modified":"2014-04-20T21:17:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:17:27","slug":"defective-rei-venturi-shorts-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/defective-rei-venturi-shorts-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Defective REI Venturi Shorts (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_7915.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Burst stitching on 2014 REI Venturi shorts. This occurs when the pocket is stretched.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105957-2\/IMG_7915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days back I picked up a pair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/product\/843381\/rei-venturi-shorts-mens\">REI Venturi shorts<\/a>, as I needed more shorts and these\u00a0were quite comfortable when tried on. I wore them for\u00a0much of the day today and they\u00a0were comfortable, but poorly engineered pockets is causing me to return them.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving home from my parents&#8217; Easter dinner, when reaching into my left pocket with my right hand to get my keys, I heard a tearing sound. It turns out that the thread used to stitch along the pockets is not as stretchy as the short material itself, and stretching the edge of the pocket causes the stitching to burst, as seen above. At $69.50\/pair I expected better, and I&#8217;ll be returning these tomorrow. I&#8217;m disappointed in this because they\u00a0are comfortable and\u00a0met a need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days back I picked up a pair of the REI Venturi shorts, as I needed more shorts and these\u00a0were quite comfortable when tried&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/defective-rei-venturi-shorts-2014\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defective REI Venturi Shorts (2014)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17866,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions\/17866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}