{"id":1391,"date":"2009-04-25T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2009-04-25T12:46:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:46:46","slug":"just-how-fat-can-one-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Just how fat can one get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rightly worry about the explosive epidemic of obesity in the developed world, especially among children.<br \/>\nBut, of course, excessive weight has been exhibited by unusual people in the past. I was reminded of this earlier this week when I spent a day in Leicester with my sister. We visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicester.gov.uk\/your-council--services\/lc\/leicester-city-museums\/museums\/newarkehouses\/\">Newarke Houses Museum<\/a> which contains a section commemorating a famous local man called Daniel Lambert who was born in 1770 and died in 1809.<br \/>\nIncredibly his weight was 52 stone 11 pounds (335 kg). There are records of a few people in Britain and America whose size has surpassed Daniel Lambert&#8217;s, but he still has a place in the &#8220;Guinness Book Of Records&#8221;.<br \/>\nYou can read about him <a href=\"http:\/\/familylambert.net\/History\/bios\/daniel.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rightly worry about the explosive epidemic of obesity in the developed world, especially among children. But, of course, excessive weight has been exhibited by unusual people in the past. I was reminded of this earlier this week when I spent a day in Leicester with my sister. We visited the Newarke Houses Museum which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}