{"id":953,"date":"2005-05-20T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/953"},"modified":"2005-05-20T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T15:21:00","slug":"capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/953","title":{"rendered":"Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right, fine, I get it, I give in, I will go on a diet. <\/p>\n

Yes, kids, it’s my VERY FIRST DIET EVER! At age 27, I guess it’s about time that I give myself over to the National Pastime of watching what I eat.<\/p>\n

I’ve been all proud in the past that my metabolism has been sufficiently kind to give me the kind of body which, while by no means describable as “slender”, could certainly garner adjectives like “curvy”, “womanly” and most importantly “petite”. No longer. Metabolism, you, aided by your fiendish collaborators, Hormonal Birth Control and Increasingly Sedentary Lifestyle, have renedered me “lumpy”, “heavyset” and possibly even “tubby”. This will not do. <\/p>\n

I know nothing at all about diets, and although several of my friends have done Weight Watchers, I find the concept of “points” totally unappealing. I saw my friend go on South Beach before her wedding, and that seemed to go pretty well, when combined with some rigorous squash-playing. So probabaly a little gardening and a whole lot less oatmeal-raisin cookies will do me some good. We’ll see how my personal willpower stands up to two weeks of no fruit, no bread, no potatoes, no boozahol. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right, fine, I get it, I give in, I will go on a diet. Yes, kids, it’s my VERY FIRST DIET EVER! At age 27, I guess it’s about time that I give myself over to the National Pastime of watching what I eat. I’ve been all proud in the past that my metabolism […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}