{"id":4029,"date":"2012-08-17T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4029"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:08:28","slug":"the-before-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-before-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Before People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a moment when they turn<br \/>\nto the ads that are meant for them<br \/>\nand are happy, a moment when the fat woman<br \/>\nthinks of melting her body away in seven days,<br \/>\nand the shut-in imagines big money<br \/>\nwithout leaving his home. Slowly,<br \/>\nas if for the first time, they read<br \/>\nthe italics of their deepest wishes:<br \/>\nMade $5,000 in first month,<br \/>\nUsed to call me Fatty, and all<br \/>\nthe people with no confidence,<br \/>\nno breasts, or hair in the wrong places,<br \/>\nfind pictures of the amazing results<br \/>\nin their own states. They have overlooked<br \/>\nthe new techniques and the research<br \/>\nof doctors in Germany, they know that now,<br \/>\nsuddenly so pleased they can hardly<br \/>\nremember being sad in this, their moment,<br \/>\nbefore, just before they lie back on the beds<br \/>\nin their small rooms and think about how foolish<br \/>\nthey are or how farfetched it is or anything<br \/>\nexcept the actual photographs of their dreams.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4029\" data-postid=\"4029\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4029 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a moment when they turn to the ads that are meant for them and are happy, a moment when the fat woman thinks of melting her body away in seven days, and the shut-in imagines big money without leaving his home. Slowly, as if for the first time, they read the italics of [&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\/4029"}],"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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}