{"id":6199,"date":"2011-12-07T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2011-12-07T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:24:52","slug":"a-case-of-the-human-condition-my-awesome-zumba-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-my-awesome-zumba-body\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case of the Human Condition: My (Awesome) Zumba Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8382\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8382\" title=\"zumba-and-me (580x435)\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zumba-and-me-580x435-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"zumba class in action. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s me on the left. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trying on bras at Nordstrom the other day, the truth was all too apparent. Too much flesh here. Too much skin there. Some of it fit into the bra.\u00a0A lot of it didn&#8217;t. I felt\u00a0terrible about my body.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for my body image,\u00a0however, I went straight from lingerie shopping to my Zumba class. A few warm-ups here, a few stretches there, a little grapevine, and\u00a0I was feeling great. So was\u00a0my body. It reminded me that it can jump. It can move with the beat. It can cumbia. And yes, those hips can wiggle.<\/p>\n<p><em>For a more extensive treatment of\u00a0 my relationship with my undergarments, see <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/08\/21\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-mad-men-exposes-the-60s-girdle-but-how-will-she-get-it-off-in-time\/\">my Mad Men girdle story<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2011\/12\/07\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-my-awesome-zumba-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2011\/12\/07\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-my-awesome-zumba-body\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8382 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zumba-and-me-580x435-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"zumba class in action. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Too much flesh here. Too much skin there. But I can Zumba. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2011\/12\/07\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-my-awesome-zumba-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[565,657,34,658,659],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-body-image","tag-cumbia","tag-dont-miss","tag-trying-on-bras","tag-zumba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}