{"id":2503,"date":"2009-12-06T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2009-12-06T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T16:26:38","slug":"in_the_buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"In The Buff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British reality series <i>How to Look Good Naked<\/i> is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/ouch\/2009\/12\/disability_tv_stripped_naked.html\">give ego boosts to three women with disabilities in a string of three episodes<\/a> airing in January. I&#8217;ve never seen the show, but the basic premise involves a fashion designer counseling women on how to feel more confident about their bodies without resorting to cosmetic surgery or weight loss. I admire the three women who agreed to participate in the show as they seem much braver than me. My solution for looking good naked is to mentally hum &#8220;You Look So Fine&#8221; by Garbage until I no longer feel the overwhelming impulse to screw my eyes shut&nbsp; and profusely apologize to whomever else is in the room. Sometimes, this method actually works, but I&#8217;d have to come up with a much lengthier soundtrack before I could summon the courage to bare everything for a national television audience. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British reality series How to Look Good Naked is going to give ego boosts to three women with disabilities in a string of three episodes airing in January. I&#8217;ve never seen the show, but the basic premise involves a fashion designer counseling women on how to feel more confident about their bodies without resorting to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2503' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-En","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}