{"id":3793,"date":"2010-08-07T04:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T02:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2010-08-07T04:50:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T02:50:42","slug":"linda-fondren-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/linda-fondren-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Fondren is My Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/HEALTH\/08\/05\/cnnheroes.fondren.vicksburg\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the CNN article about her<\/a>, as well as the video below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/HEALTH\/08\/05\/cnnheroes.fondren.vicksburg\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><!--more-->According to CNN:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many attribute the success to Fondren&#8217;s relentless determination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She takes no prisoners. She&#8217;s committed to weight loss,&#8221; said Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield, who lost 16 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Shape Up Vicksburg includes a walking club, which draws up to 200 people, and a weekly nutrition class. Fondren&#8217;s gym is also open to all women every Saturday, and she frequently teaches fitness classes at area schools and churches.<\/p>\n<p>All of these activities are free, something she believes is a critical factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the poor African-American and white communities that are the most obese, and those are the ones that are most unreachable,&#8221; Fondren said.<\/p>\n<p>As a successful real estate developer, Fondren largely funds the effort herself, but the initiative also receives donations from local businesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s an amazing human being. I just made a donation to &#8220;Shape Up Vicksburg&#8221; &#8211; how about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the CNN article about her, as well as the video below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,14,24,28,29],"tags":[610,642,808,1863,1867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}