{"id":138,"date":"2019-10-18T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atbs.bk-ninja.com\/suga\/?p=138"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T08:38:18","slug":"i-moved-across-the-country-and-never-looked-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/i-moved-across-the-country-and-never-looked-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I Moved Across the Country and Never Looked Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my excitement, I whipped out my iPhone for a photo opportunity the moment I got into my car after leaving the salon. I placed one hand on the steering wheel of my Volkswagen and used the other hand to take the photo. Then I looked at the picture on my phone screen in horror.<\/p>\n<p>On the screen, in high definition and vibrant color, was one giant beefy paw with cheerfully bright nail polish. It was\u00a0<em class=\"oa\">my<\/em>\u00a0giant beefy paw. And I didn\u2019t like it one bit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/12\/form-w0YIvob3LlI-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How could I have believed that a coat of polish would make my large, chubby hands appear less manly? My palms looked so wide. My fingers were thick. And the lines \u2014 so many lines everywhere. There were creases on the backs of my hands, creases on my knuckles, creases on my palms. What was happening to me?<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, I remembered hands \u2014 other people\u2019s hands \u2014 as being perfectly smooth, lineless, flawless, artistic arrangements of elegant fingers and slender palms. My hands were the exact opposite of the hands in my mind\u2019s eye. They weren\u2019t hands; they were\u00a0<em class=\"oa\">anti<\/em>-hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my excitement, I whipped out my iPhone for a photo opportunity the moment I got into my car after leaving the salon. I placed one hand on the steering wheel of my Volkswagen and used the other hand to take the photo. Then I looked at the picture on my phone screen in horror. On the screen, in high definition and vibrant color, was one giant beefy paw with cheerfully bright nail polish. It was\u00a0my\u00a0giant beefy paw. And I didn\u2019t like it one bit. How could I have believed that a coat of polish would make my large, chubby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[20,22,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/bloom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}