{"id":1391,"date":"2016-08-10T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/girltalk\/?p=9"},"modified":"2016-08-10T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:25:30","slug":"demeaning-others-to-feel-better-about-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Demeaning others to feel better about myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was lurking on my husband’s FB page to look at pictures of my nieces and nephews and came across a photo of one of my sisters. I haven’t seen her in a while and my first thought was “she’s more overweight than me now!” Well, isn’t that a terrible way to make myself feel less fat. Why didn’t I focus on her big smile and that she looked happy and like she was having fun?<\/p>\n

That’s my big appearance stumbling block – my weight and the feeling of dumpiness that goes with it. It’s how I compare myself to other women appearance-wise, though I know it’s not actually a measure of anything. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was lurking on my husband’s FB page to look at pictures of my nieces and nephews and came across a photo of one of my sisters. I haven’t seen her in a while and my first thought was “she’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-girltalk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8xTNS-mr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}