{"id":409,"date":"2003-10-12T01:31:48","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/12\/ms-fat-so\/"},"modified":"2003-10-12T01:31:48","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T09:31:48","slug":"ms-fat-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Ms. Fat-so&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snip\">A typical day: When I walk out of my home, a flyer stapled to the telephone pole I pass on the way to my car proclaims, &#8220;Lose 30 pounds in 30 days &#8230;  Ask me how!&#8221; On the way to work, I pass six skinny joggers, 12 Port Authority bus-boards with skinny, beautiful women on them, and four billboards related to health and beauty featuring tiny women.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, I receive 36 spam e-mails suggesting I should lose weight. Every time I log into my e-mail, I am treated to a large banner ad telling me I can &#8220;look better naked&#8221; through a certain weight-loss plan (an ad I see a total of 28 times during my workday).<\/p>\n<p>Four times throughout the day, I pass the hallway vending machine, where the healthiest treat is a bag of pretzels, ridiculous with sodium.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I am ready for bed, I have been reminded in 19 different ways and around 130 times that I am fat; that fat people are unattractive and undesirable; that fat people should be made fun of and feel ashamed of ourselves; and that we need to lose weight to be accepted, successful, beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csindy.com\/csindy\/2003-10-09\/cover.html\">Worth a look.<\/a> (Brought to you by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csindy.com\/\">Colorado Springs Independent<\/a> by way of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws\/\">Pittsburgh City Paper<\/a>.)<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=cialis-oral-jelly-35\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical day: When I walk out of my home, a flyer stapled to the telephone pole I pass on the way to my car proclaims, &#8220;Lose 30 pounds in 30 days &#8230; Ask me how!&#8221; On the way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}