{"id":1806,"date":"2007-11-26T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T00:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=11"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T00:13:54","slug":"remain-from-sky-busting-working-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Remain from &#8220;Sky Busting&#8221; (working title)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I might call the book &#8220;Snow Bird.&#8221; Cannot make up my mind!<\/p>\n<p>REMAIN<\/p>\n<p>How to remain<br \/>\nthin. Abstain. Abstain from eating<br \/>\nfood. Calories kill<br \/>\nthe fat rats first. If she could say No<br \/>\nand balance Belgian truffles<br \/>\non her tongue briefly before spitting<br \/>\nthem out, she might remain. Live<br \/>\nlong. Enjoy fruition. By shunning<br \/>\nurges, she could linger\u2014dainty as a colt\u2019s<br \/>\nfoot\u2014deploying her charms raw,<br \/>\ndogtrotting a straddled chocolate Arabian<br \/>\nthrough mazes of lane. She could retire<br \/>\nto her body.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, ankles thicken, braids recede,<br \/>\nthe old mare conjured whenever she dare<br \/>\nlook. Fight back. She may be forced to<br \/>\ncover the grey, yellow, but refuses to swallow<br \/>\ndiet pills. Amphetamines in the olden days.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner in the garbage rouses niggles of guilt.<br \/>\nShe snuffles it out before Buddy can,<br \/>\nbarfing rather than blowing<br \/>\ncalories on fusty pizza<br \/>\nor molding, olive oil-sopped arugula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might call the book &#8220;Snow Bird.&#8221; Cannot make up my mind! REMAIN How to remain thin. Abstain. Abstain from eating food. Calories kill the fat rats first. If she could say No and balance Belgian truffles on her tongue briefly before spitting them out, she might remain. Live long. Enjoy fruition. By shunning urges, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[149,233,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}