{"id":73,"date":"2008-02-01T17:49:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/moronic-legislation\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:49:59","slug":"moronic-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/01\/moronic-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Moronic Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/billstatus.ls.state.ms.us\/documents\/2008\/pdf\/HB\/0200-0299\/HB0282IN.pdf\">Mississippi bill<\/a> to prohibit food establishments from serving food to obese people.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only person who looks at that and thinks of the &#8220;Physical Jerks&#8221; scene from 1984?I mean, Sweet Zombie Jesus, it&#8217;s not like I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> believe in healthy eating and exercise. \u00a0\u00a0 My ass was in the pool today and I swam a whole <em>mile<\/em>.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t say I don&#8217;t work out.\u00a0\u00a0 I believe that eating right and exercise is good for you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s not the State&#8217;s goddamned job to <em>force <\/em>it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mississippi bill to prohibit food establishments from serving food to obese people. Am I the only person who looks at that and thinks of the &#8220;Physical Jerks&#8221; scene from 1984?I mean, Sweet Zombie Jesus, it&#8217;s not like I don&#8217;t believe in healthy eating and exercise. \u00a0\u00a0 My ass was in the pool today and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/01\/moronic-legislation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moronic Legislation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}