{"id":4409,"date":"2003-09-08T14:09:38","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T21:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2003-09-08T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T21:09:38","slug":"gilding_the_lil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/gilding_the_lil.html","title":{"rendered":"Gilding the lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you&#8217;re wondering why you don&#8217;t look like a super-model, don&#8217;t &#8212; <a title=\"Greg's Digital Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/gapodaca\/digital\/bikini\/index.html\">they don&#8217;t look like themselves, either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.  If I said that I liked the <i>real <\/i>thing, would I get kicked out of the country or something?<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bears-cave.com\/archive\/2003_09.html#3392\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you&#8217;re wondering why you don&#8217;t look like a super-model, don&#8217;t &#8212; they don&#8217;t look like themselves, either. Yeesh. 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