{"id":17547,"date":"2021-02-04T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=17547"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:21:10","slug":"it-is-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/04\/it-is-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"it IS a scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">slice-of-life: my friend told me that she&#8217;s been working out super hard (who talks about this kind of thing? you know my <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/agreed\/\">feelings<\/a> about talking about exercise) (BORING) and anyway now she has six-pack abs (cool? i guess?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">now every morning when i work out (baby workouts, almost like sleeping while moving), i&#8217;m picturing her abs and then looking at my non-six-pack abs and feeling BLUE. i <em>know<\/em> i&#8217;m never going to have such a thing, because i just don&#8217;t care enough about them, or necessarily subscribe to that beauty philosophy, and yet&#8230;her words echo in my ears. and echo and echo and echo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i&#8217;m reminded of this quote from aminatou sow&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/aminatou.substack.com\/p\/gentle-suggestions-1db\">newsletter<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_5104-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_5104-2.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot from aminatou sow's newsletter about envy\" class=\"wp-image-17550\" width=\"562\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_5104-2.jpg 749w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_5104-2-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YES, TRUE, THE END, THE SCAM IS REAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slice-of-life: my friend told me that she&#8217;s been working out super hard (who talks about this kind of thing? you know my feelings about talking about exercise) (BORING) and anyway now she has six-pack abs (cool? i guess?). now every morning when i work out (baby workouts, almost like sleeping while moving), i&#8217;m picturing her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17547"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17565,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions\/17565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}