{"id":134,"date":"2009-08-12T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz\/2009\/08\/muffins-and-buttons\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T04:00:44","slug":"muffins-and-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Muffins and Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/SoIpvuA8kxI\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/ADQc6jDYSf0\/s1600-h\/muffin%5B1%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368899605561643794\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 176px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/SoIpvuA8kxI\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/ADQc6jDYSf0\/s320\/muffin%5B1%5D.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">There comes a time in everyone&#8217;s life when they realize that their days of being &#8220;with it&#8221; are over. When all the songs on Top 40 radio sound the same and don&#8217;t sound anything like the good music that was put out when we were younger. When 85% of the clothes you see in the stores look more like costumes than something you would actually wear in public. While I am not QUITE there yet I have to admit that day is closer than I want it to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I was in the local mall today and noticed 2 trends on young (and not so young) women that frighten me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">#1 The Muffin Top. This is the term for that roll of fat that hangs out over pants that are too tight. There have always been a few women in size denial who did this, but it appears that now this is way girls are trying to dress- even slender girls seem to to sporting this now! I can&#8217;t imagine it&#8217;s comfortable and it certainly isn&#8217;t fun to look at. For reasons I cannot fathom this look is usually paired with&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">#2 The Shirt so tight you can see their belly button. How this is even possible when they are wearing 3 and 4 shirts at a time- also a puzzling trend- I&#8217;m not sure . It cannot be comfortable- I seem to see these girls adjusting their layers of shirts all the time.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/SoIp9lvTjhI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/8fI0lIiBeWE\/s1600-h\/button.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368899843858337298\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 297px; float: right; height: 299px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/SoIp9lvTjhI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/8fI0lIiBeWE\/s320\/button.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;\">My weight changes more often than the weather in Minnesota but I have never knowingly sported either of these looks. I learned a long time ago that dressing in clothes that are the correct size is always the more flattering choice regardless of what that size is. Don&#8217;t any of these women have mothers, friends or at least a full-length mirror that could tell them how silly they look? Or am I just getting old and should start shopping for double-knit polyester slacks and matching banded-bottom tops now?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a time in everyone&#8217;s life when they realize that their days of being &#8220;with it&#8221; are over. When all the songs on Top 40 radio sound the same and don&#8217;t sound anything like the good music that was put out when we were younger. When 85% of the clothes you see in the stores look more like costumes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=134\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}