{"id":353,"date":"2004-03-11T23:19:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T06:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=353"},"modified":"2008-03-30T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:21:44","slug":"itd-be-worse-if-you-could-smoke-fat-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/11\/itd-be-worse-if-you-could-smoke-fat-though\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;d be worse if you could smoke fat, though."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A double helping of news on America&#8217;s epidemic                 with obesity: <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4486906\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost                 as deadly as tobacco<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3500388.stm\" target=\"_blank\">no                 lawsuits allowed against fast food restaurants for making their                 customers unhealthy<\/a>. Normally I&#8217;m on the side of the plaintiffs,                 but honestly, if one can&#8217;t see that a Whopper or a Big Mac is                 unhealthy for consumption, doesn&#8217;t personal responsibility need                 to come to the rescue?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/03\/11\/SAMESEX11.TMP\" target=\"_blank\">SF&#8217;s                   gay wedding streak comes to a halt<\/a> almost a month after                   its inception. Conservatives need to drop offense to this issue                   &#8212; it&#8217;s a social justice, and not a religious, issue, highlighted                   by Bill Maher&#8217;s quote, &#8220;We&#8217;re here. We&#8217;re queer. Get bored                   with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I                         always gagged on that silver spoon&#8230; if I hadn&#8217;t been                         very rich, I might have been a really great man.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nCharles Foster Kane                           (Orson Welles), &#8220;Citizen Kane&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/11\/itd-be-worse-if-you-could-smoke-fat-though\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double helping of news on America&#8217;s epidemic with obesity: almost as deadly as tobacco, and no lawsuits allowed against fast food restaurants for making their customers unhealthy. Normally I&#8217;m on the side of the plaintiffs, but honestly, if one can&#8217;t see that a Whopper or a Big Mac is unhealthy for consumption, doesn&#8217;t personal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/11\/itd-be-worse-if-you-could-smoke-fat-though\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;d be worse if you could smoke fat, though.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/03\/11\/itd-be-worse-if-you-could-smoke-fat-though\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}