{"id":195,"date":"2012-11-01T17:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T09:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T09:33:02","slug":"elephant-trunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/01\/elephant-trunks\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Legs Are Called Elephant Trunks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-199 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"mom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRemember that story I told you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/about-me\/\">boy who drew me in the form of a pig<\/a>? It was really to accentuate how big my legs were. So I went looking for that picture in the photo albums, but couldn&#8217;t find it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I saw these beautiful pictures of my mother&#8217;s legs (right)&#8230; phewwit!<\/p>\n<p>Famed for her pair of hot legs, my late mother was (as she used to say) Miss Peter Stuyvesant&#8230; one of those models who wore mini skirts and served you a tray of cigarettes in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<h2>Well, I wasn&#8217;t born with her legs.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/trunks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-212\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"trunks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/trunks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s not what it looked like ever since I was a little girl and as you can see on the left, I can&#8217;t even bring myself to show you the full picture of what I looked like a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mine weren&#8217;t even in the leg category. They were called elephant trunks, pythons that swallowed footballs, and pork trotters.<\/p>\n<p>But today those dreadful elephant trunks started to show signs of being lovely lady legs.<\/p>\n<p>And actually (no disrespect to my mother&#8217;s famous legs), they&#8217;re looking like they are on their way to being some strong sexy legs with all the squats, skipping, and dancing I&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/leggy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196\" title=\"leggy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/leggy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what they look like a month from now. <\/p>\n<h2>Maybe then, I can start to pretend to walk like a sexy-legs girl.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that story I told you about the boy who drew me in the form of a pig? It was really to accentuate how big my legs were. So I went looking for that picture in the photo albums, but couldn&#8217;t find it. Instead I saw these beautiful pictures of my mother&#8217;s legs (right)&#8230; phewwit! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dietfitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}