{"id":82,"date":"2009-09-09T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:09:31","slug":"youre-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/youre-shrinking\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Shrinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ever tell me that I&#8217;ve lost weight.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell me I look thinner.<\/p>\n<p>I fucking hate it.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I haven&#8217;t, and I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Lost weight or look thinner, that is.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t diet; I don&#8217;t lose weight.\u00a0 And even if I did, I stopped weighing myself about seven years ago so I wouldn&#8217;t know it.<\/p>\n<p>Second of all, I&#8217;m not <em>that fat<\/em> to begin with.\u00a0 My friend Sean and I used to talk about this all the time.\u00a0 People who haven&#8217;t seen us in a while <em>always <\/em>say we look like we&#8217;ve lost weight, so he and I came to the conclusion that, in their minds, we live as obelisks.<\/p>\n<p>Third of all, it&#8217;s none of your fucking business!\u00a0 Would you say, &#8220;Boy, your acne has really cleared up!&#8221;\u00a0 By making a statement about my imaginary weight loss, you&#8217;re condemning whatever I supposedly looked like previously.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me I look smokin&#8217; hot.\u00a0 Tell me you love my new shirt.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t fucking tell me I&#8217;m &#8220;shrinking&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ever tell me that I&#8217;ve lost weight.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell me I look thinner. I fucking hate it. First of all, I haven&#8217;t, and I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Lost weight or look thinner, that is.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t diet; I don&#8217;t lose weight.\u00a0 And even if I did, I stopped weighing myself about seven years ago so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/youre-shrinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You&#8217;re Shrinking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}