{"id":10769,"date":"2020-06-25T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:45:13","slug":"the-covid-bulge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/25\/the-covid-bulge\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID Bulge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-covid-15-lockdowns-are-lifting-and-our-clothes-dont-fit-11593095525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Covid 15: Lockdowns Are Lifting, and Our Clothes Don\u2019t Fit<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Apparel shoppers upsize after putting on weight in quarantine, boosting sales\u2014and returns; \u2018Holy moly, I gained 11 pounds\u2019&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Suzanne Kapner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pants Too Tight~ Make A Pants Stretcher\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-QMF4DFnziA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amanda Ponzar knew she had gained weight from all her baking while sheltering at home in Alexandria, Va., but she hadn\u2019t realized how much until she ordered shorts online from Walmart Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had an elastic waist but were still too tight. \u201cYou need smaller thighs to wear those,\u201d her 12-year-old son told her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-covid-15-lockdowns-are-lifting-and-our-clothes-dont-fit-11593095525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal The Covid 15: Lockdowns Are Lifting, and Our Clothes Don\u2019t Fit Apparel shoppers upsize after putting on weight in quarantine, boosting sales\u2014and returns; \u2018Holy moly, I gained 11 pounds\u2019&nbsp; By\u00a0Suzanne Kapner Amanda Ponzar knew she had gained weight from all her baking while sheltering at home in Alexandria, Va., but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}