{"id":877,"date":"2010-02-18T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:02:40","slug":"craig-fergusons-hilarious-rant-on-fat-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/craig-fergusons-hilarious-rant-on-fat-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Ferguson&#8217;s Hilarious Rant on Fat Prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, director and comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Smith\">Kevin Smith<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinsider.com\/news\/3199737_Kevin_Smith_Calls_Plane_Incident_Worst_Experience_of_His_Life\">thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat<\/a>. He&#8217;s been speaking out about it, calling it &#8220;humiliating&#8221; and &#8220;the worst thing that&#8217;s ever happened to me.&#8221; Two days ago on Mardi Gras (aka Fat Tuesday), late night comedian Craig Ferguson made fat prejudice the subject of his monologue. It is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D5D7FkOa1Sc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D5D7FkOa1Sc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, director and comedian Kevin Smith was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat. He&#8217;s been speaking out about it, calling it &#8220;humiliating&#8221; and &#8220;the worst thing that&#8217;s ever happened to me.&#8221; Two days ago on Mardi Gras (aka Fat Tuesday), late night comedian &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}