{"id":4306,"date":"2008-02-03T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2021-06-09T21:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:51:20","slug":"but-hes-called-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2008\/02\/03\/but-hes-called-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"But He&#8217;s Called <I>Big<\/I> Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Some fat-haters in Mississippi want to see you starve.  <i>Raw Story<\/i> has the unbelievable <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/State_Big_Dietitian_watching_you_0202.html \">report<\/a> that &#8220;[a] bill recently introduced in Mississippi&#8217;s state legislature would bar restaurants from serving people determined to be obese.&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The state&#8217;s health department can even revoke permits of establishments that do not comply.  No word on how the determination of &#8220;obesity&#8221; would be made.  No word on if food establishments have to provide their own scales or have to perform BMI tests on potential customers.  No word on how any McDonald&#8217;s will stay open.  And no word on how punishing people who actually go out to restaurants is going to fix anything.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; You might even file this as another sign of the great American police state we&#8217;re turning into, except no one has been wantonly tasered or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a1yUsYIk2EM\">forcibly strip searched<\/a> &#8230; yet.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some fat-haters in Mississippi want to see you starve. Raw Story has the unbelievable report that &#8220;[a] bill recently introduced in Mississippi&#8217;s state legislature would bar restaurants from serving people determined to be obese.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp; The state&#8217;s health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2008\/02\/03\/but-hes-called-big-brother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}