{"id":765,"date":"2006-04-25T21:03:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=765"},"modified":"2006-04-25T21:03:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T01:03:53","slug":"never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three things I will never say about myself in front of my girls:<\/p>\n<p>I am fat.<\/p>\n<p>I am ugly.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the way I look.<\/p>\n<p>We all have bad days when we hate something about ourselves, but I will not teach my girls to worry about their weight or looks.  The beauty I see in them runs much deeper than their skin.  A girl who loves herself glows in a way that all the make-up and diet pills can never begin to compete with.  So when I was changing this morning and Leina looked at me and said, &#8220;mommy, your tummy is so pretty,&#8221; I did not correct her.  I did not point out the streach marks, the gallbladder scars or the extra fat gigglying in the morning light.  Instead, I patted by round belly and said, &#8220;oh, thank you Leina, I think it&#8217;s pretty too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never.  Never.  Never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three things I will never say about myself in front of my girls: I am fat. I am ugly. I hate the way I look. We all have bad days when we hate something about ourselves, but I will not teach my girls to worry about their weight or looks. The beauty I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2Kqhb-never","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}