{"id":4123,"date":"2011-09-27T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2011-09-27T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T00:14:12","slug":"1930s-study-proves-fat-persons-are-fat-because-they-eat-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/27\/1930s-study-proves-fat-persons-are-fat-because-they-eat-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"1930s study proves &#8220;fat persons are fat because they eat too much&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this Associated Press article from the mid-&#8217;30s, it turns out  that &#8220;fat persons are fat because they eat too much&#8221; and &#8220;gains in flesh always followed the taking of more energy than was expended in muscular work by the individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow &#8230; who knew? <\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t science amazing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/FatArticle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/FatArticle-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FatArticle\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/FatArticle-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/FatArticle.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this Associated Press article from the mid-&#8217;30s, it turns out that &#8220;fat persons are fat because they eat too much&#8221; and &#8220;gains in flesh always followed the taking of more energy than was expended in muscular work by the individual.&#8221; Wow &#8230; who knew? Ain&#8217;t science amazing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}