{"id":10897,"date":"2009-08-02T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:57:59","slug":"makes-children-as-fat-as-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/02\/makes-children-as-fat-as-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Makes Children As Fat As Pigs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ideal bodies vary across cultures and time.\u00a0\u00a0 In the U.S. today, childhood obesity is considered a significant social problem and is widely covered in the news, on talk shows, and the like.\u00a0 When food was more scarce, however, having a fat child was a sign of health and well-being.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1226039.html\" target=\"_blank\">This ad<\/a>, from 1898, is for a tonic that will fatten up your child.\u00a0 How times change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10899\" title=\"0_28f63_d77c6eef_XL\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/0_28f63_d77c6eef_XL.jpg\" alt=\"0_28f63_d77c6eef_XL\" width=\"339\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/0_28f63_d77c6eef_XL.jpg 339w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/0_28f63_d77c6eef_XL-127x300.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideal bodies vary across cultures and time.\u00a0\u00a0 In the U.S. today, childhood obesity is considered a significant social problem and is widely covered in the news, on talk shows, and the like.\u00a0 When food was more scarce, however, having a fat child was a sign of health and well-being.\u00a0 This ad, from 1898, is for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,244,223,2124,252,253,293,23705],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-fat","tag-childrenyouth","tag-foodagriculture","tag-healthmedicine","tag-history","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51967,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions\/51967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}