{"id":540,"date":"2006-04-26T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2006-04-26T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T21:32:00","slug":"juicy-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Juicy Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her Worshipfulness told me I should not post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bastart\/134450266\/\">this picture<\/a>, as it depicts me as being fat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always had a bit of trouble visualizing my own size.  As a teenager, I wondered why my shirts were all sized as &#8220;XL&#8221; when they clearly were made to fit normal-sized people.  In college I would often be referred to as skinny or by the proper name &#8220;Slim&#8221;, and didn&#8217;t really get why.  After I got a desk job, people who wanted to ask me for fifty-seven cents so they could get downtown attracted my attention by calling me &#8220;big guy&#8221;, another epithet I never agreed with. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, I believe myself to be the one person on terra firma who is &#8220;normal-sized&#8221;, and everyone else is either short or tall, diminutive or large.  Sources would point to me being bigger than most people, and I&#8217;m just starting to catch on.  So, if I inadvertantly crush you as I walk by, my mammoth stride spanning valleys and my head somewhere where the air is thin and crisp, cut me some slack.  After all, you&#8217;re the short one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Worshipfulness told me I should not post this picture, as it depicts me as being fat. I&#8217;ve always had a bit of trouble visualizing my own size. As a teenager, I wondered why my shirts were all sized as &#8220;XL&#8221; when they clearly were made to fit normal-sized people. In college I would often [&hellip;]<\/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-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}