{"id":42,"date":"2011-02-24T18:13:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2011-12-12T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T06:20:02","slug":"another-reason-to-work-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Exercise  2-24-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday as I was coming back from my workout at the local college, I got involved in an argument. \u00a0I usually stay out of arguments because I&#8217;m so busy, but today I had to get into one.<\/p>\n<p>There are American Veterans that go to the local college\u00a0who want the other students to know that they are students and were speaking\u00a0to and greeting\u00a0people.\u00a0 On my way\u00a0to my workout, I saw them and smiled.\u00a0 I appreciate their service and I support them.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back,\u00a0I\u00a0saw that a couple\u00a0had come to\u00a0their table\u00a0to\u00a0argue with them and call them names.\u00a0\u00a0I stood by for a moment\u00a0listening to them\u00a0verbally abuse the Veterans.\u00a0\u00a0The Veterans were\u00a0quiet and\u00a0respectful of this very disrespectful couple,\u00a0but they\u00a0weren&#8217;t defending themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I got so angry at these abusers and their lies. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t take it.\u00a0 I felt that if I didn&#8217;t defend these Veterans I was a nothing.\u00a0 I started\u00a0countering the lies and vilification that these degenerates were spewing at our\u00a0Veterans.\u00a0 I was able to demolish their lies because I know American history and they had no response to me.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that I was shaking so badly during my defense of the Veterans.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so out of shape and I thought I might get into a fight.\u00a0 I thought those America haters might attack me. \u00a0I&#8217;m not in shape to fight these days and that bothers me.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be in such good shape.\u00a0\u00a0Seven\u00a0years ago, I\u00a0trained in\u00a0Jiu Jitsu for three years. \u00a0 That is the same stuff that UFC fighters use. \u00a0Before that, I beat a four time Mr. Natural Universe title holder in a dip competition. \u00a0The guy was like Superman and I beat him; and I have a witness (my brother). \u00a0 Since then, I have let myself slip\u00a0so far from what I was, that I\u00a0appear to have\u00a0lost all confidence in myself.<\/p>\n<p>Will this encounter spur me to get back in shape? \u00a0Knowing myself, no. \u00a0I&#8217;m too busy with work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday as I was coming back from my workout at the local college, I got involved in an argument. \u00a0I usually stay out of arguments because I&#8217;m so busy, but today I had to get into one. There are American Veterans that go to the local college\u00a0who want the other students to know that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,165,11,167,10,166,9],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericanmale","tag-american-history","tag-american-veteran","tag-college","tag-natural-body-building","tag-students","tag-ufc","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}