{"id":671,"date":"2021-08-18T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:41:11","slug":"thighs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Thighs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My thighs are fat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They carry my weight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As opposed to my back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which never over-ate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walk miles each day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep them trim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But still they pucker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no shrinking them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wrists are small<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankles, as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My arms don\u2019t have flaps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my thighs\u2026What the hell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m shaped like my mom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though quite a bit smaller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she never exercised<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, my thighs-why the horror?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I massage them, use lotion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s s\u2019posed to melt fat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do leg lifts and squatties<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But still, look at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diets won\u2019t shrink them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And still they wobble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each cell has a mouth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeking food to gobble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is chocolate the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord, please, NO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018cause that\u2019s one thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can never let go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m an addict, it\u2019s true,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I say it with pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No shame in chocoholism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won\u2019t be denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when kids say, \u201cGranny,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see your thighs wiggle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll give them a chocolate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And together, we\u2019ll giggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thighs are fat They carry my weight As opposed to my back Which never over-ate. I walk miles each day To keep them trim But still they pucker There\u2019s no shrinking them. My wrists are small Ankles, as well My arms don\u2019t have flaps But my thighs\u2026What the hell? I\u2019m shaped like my mom [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}