{"id":3991,"date":"2012-08-16T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3991"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:05:28","slug":"the-fat-people-of-the-old-days","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-fat-people-of-the-old-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fat People of the Old Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly, being so large<br \/>\ngave them a sense<br \/>\nof possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Women with huge upper arms<br \/>\nfelt freer.<\/p>\n<p>Children never stopped opening<br \/>\nthe landscapes of flesh<br \/>\nwhich grew in their hands.<\/p>\n<p>The few thin ones<br \/>\nwere called \u201cchinless\u201d<br \/>\nbecause their chins seemed<br \/>\nindistinguishable from their necks.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows when the thin ones<br \/>\nbegan to seem beautiful,<br \/>\nwhen the fat people first worried<br \/>\nabout weight.<\/p>\n<p>A woman came to fear<br \/>\nher elbows and knees<br \/>\nwere sinking into dimples<\/p>\n<p>A man believed his chin,<br \/>\nwhich shook when he talked,<br \/>\nwas also speaking.<\/p>\n<p>For many years the fat life continued.<\/p>\n<p>Each day inside strange<br \/>\nhouses with wide doors,<br \/>\nfathers rose folding themselves<br \/>\ninto their pants.<\/p>\n<p>Each night the families<br \/>\ndreamed of bones<br \/>\nhung forever in fat\u2019s<br \/>\nlocked closet.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3991\" data-postid=\"3991\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3991 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly, being so large gave them a sense of possibility. Women with huge upper arms felt freer. Children never stopped opening the landscapes of flesh which grew in their hands. The few thin ones were called \u201cchinless\u201d because their chins seemed indistinguishable from their necks. No one knows when the thin ones began to seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3991\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}