{"id":5401,"date":"2011-10-04T05:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:52:29","slug":"chris-christie-fat-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/chris-christie-fat-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chris Christie Too Fat to be President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a word, no.<\/p>\n<p>Given\u00a0the extensive news coverage of Mr. Christie&#8217;s weight (for examples, see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/ticket\/chris-christie-too-fat-president-172219453.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/chris-christies-big-problem\/2011\/09\/29\/gIQAAL7J8K_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chris-christie-too-fat-to-be-president-2011-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/95589\/guess-chris-christies-weight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2011-09-30\/requiem-for-a-governor-before-he-s-in-the-ring-michael-kinsley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>), you&#8217;d think this was a more important issue than his experience, knowledge and policy positions.<\/p>\n<p>Note to the media: yes, the man&#8217;s fat. He knows he&#8217;s fat, too. But unless he&#8217;s actually experiencing metabolic and\/or cardiovascular issues, his\u00a0girth is a non-issue for me. Time to move on and cover the issues&#8230; the <em>real<\/em> issues, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a word, no. Given\u00a0the extensive news coverage of Mr. Christie&#8217;s weight (for examples, see here, here, here, here and here), you&#8217;d think this was a more important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,24],"tags":[1294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401"}],"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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10393,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}