{"id":3423,"date":"2016-06-06T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/145513230783"},"modified":"2016-06-06T17:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:49:02","slug":"see-me-walking-down-the-streetbig-hips-fleshy-armssee-me-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2016\/06\/see-me-walking-down-the-streetbig-hips-fleshy-armssee-me-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"See me walking down the streetBig hips, fleshy armsSee me smile,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/9cc04930ae623f791d55629edc0ac027\/tumblr_o8b4z9kkzb1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>See me walking down the street<\/p>\n<p>Big hips, fleshy arms<\/p>\n<p>See me smile, all toothy and bright<\/p>\n<p>See my skin<\/p>\n<p>See my fat<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The little girl inside me laughs and claps<br \/>I skip over cracks<br \/>See my stride, watch my flow<br \/>See me strutting through this town<br \/>See me walking. \u00a0See my fat<\/p>\n<p>A white boy catches the little girl\u2019s eye<br \/>He\u2019s nothing but a teen, but still he knows how<br \/>To spit, to scowl, point and laugh<br \/>See me falter<br \/>See my fat<\/p>\n<p>I ain\u2019t your mammy, shut your mouth<br \/>I ain\u2019t your dancer, your exotic queen<br \/>I\u2019m just a shadow when the lights burn bright<\/p>\n<p>See her shrinking<\/p>\n<p>See my fat<\/p>\n<p>If my little girl disappears who will take her space<\/p>\n<p>The space she takes just walking down the street?<\/p>\n<p>How can any fat person ever make it out in one piece<\/p>\n<p>When hard eyes make every step a feat?<\/p>\n<p>This fat black soul is wounded as I speak<\/p>\n<p>See my fat<\/p>\n<p>And just let me be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/9cc04930ae623f791d55629edc0ac027\/tumblr_o8b4z9kkzb1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>See me walking down the street<\/p>\n<p>Big hips, fleshy arms<\/p>\n<p>See me smile, all toothy and bright<\/p>\n<p>See my skin<\/p>\n<p>See my fat<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The little girl inside me laughs and claps<br \/>I skip over cracks<br \/>See my stride, watch my flow<br \/>See me strutting through this town<br \/>See me walking. &nbsp;See my fat<\/p>\n<p>A white boy catches the little girl&rsquo;s eye<br \/>He&rsquo;s nothing but a teen, but still he knows how<br \/>To spit, to scowl, point and laugh<br \/>See me falter<br \/>See my fat<\/p>\n<p>I ain&rsquo;t your mammy, shut your mouth<br \/>I ain&rsquo;t your dancer, your exotic queen<br \/>I&rsquo;m just a shadow when the lights burn bright<\/p>\n<p>See her shrinking<\/p>\n<p>See my fat<\/p>\n<p>If my little girl disappears who will take her space<\/p>\n<p>The space she takes just walking down the street?<\/p>\n<p>How can any fat person ever make it out in one piece<\/p>\n<p>When hard eyes make every step a feat?<\/p>\n<p>This fat black soul is wounded as I speak<\/p>\n<p>See my fat<\/p>\n<p>And just let me be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302,480,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatphobia","category-misogynoir","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}