{"id":26542,"date":"2016-08-14T01:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26542"},"modified":"2016-08-14T01:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:14:46","slug":"honoring-fat-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/honoring-fat-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Fat Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring Fat Women<\/p>\n<p>Frannie Z<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a descriptor, fat honors.<\/p>\n<p>Lush, full, plus, zaftig<\/p>\n<p>are okay.<\/p>\n<p>But fat is a good, short word.<\/p>\n<p>We are a body type,<\/p>\n<p>not a disease.<\/p>\n<p>And the worst thing<\/p>\n<p>people can do<\/p>\n<p>is hide us<\/p>\n<p>in language.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We exist. We breathe.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we dance.<\/p>\n<p>Often, if you grant us the right,<\/p>\n<p>we exercise<\/p>\n<p>and can even<\/p>\n<p>be seen eating<\/p>\n<p>vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, toss the baggage.<\/p>\n<p>Smile.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not starving or<\/p>\n<p>cutting our insides<\/p>\n<p>away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full fat.<\/p>\n<p>Like cream,<\/p>\n<p>We taste better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring Fat Women Frannie Z &nbsp; As a descriptor, fat honors. Lush, full, plus, zaftig are okay. But fat is a good, short word. We are a body type, not a disease. And the worst thing people can do is hide us in language. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26548,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions\/26548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}