{"id":7068,"date":"2004-11-03T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/03\/the-fat-police-are-coming.html"},"modified":"2004-11-03T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T18:19:10","slug":"the_fat_police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/03\/the_fat_police.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fat Police are coming …"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not the police who happen to be overweight — the police to keep you <\/em>from becoming overweight<\/a> …<\/p>\n

MILFORD, Conn. – Cupcakes became contraband at Meadowside elementary school, after Principal Robert Davis banned all celebratory sweets — a move that has made some parents sour.<\/p>\n

Health officials said Davis adopted a new policy of using games and crafts instead of baked goods to fete birthdays, holidays and special occasions, and praised it as a way to combat childhood obesity.<\/p>\n

Right. Because kids were eating so many birthday cupcakes that they were becoming fat. I can just imagine it.<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n

Katherine’s pre-school also asks that we don’t bring in cupcakes for treats, but because they’re messy as all hell with pre-schoolers. That’s <\/em>a reason I can live with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not the police who happen to be overweight — the police to keep you from becoming overweight … MILFORD, Conn. – Cupcakes became contraband at Meadowside elementary school, after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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}},"categories":[46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-daze","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132569,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/overweight-or-overfat.html","url_meta":{"origin":7068,"position":0},"title":"Overweight? 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