{"id":2041,"date":"2008-08-25T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:34","slug":"obesity-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State employees in Alabama will be required to receive medical screenings for several conditions, including body mass index. Those who are considered obese &#8212; along with exhibiting other negative health factors &#8212; will have a year to get in shape. The penalty for failure? A $25 increase in their monthly health insurance costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/news\/20080825\/alabama-obesity-penalty-stirs-debate?src=RSS_PUBLIC\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State employees in Alabama will be required to receive medical screenings for several conditions, including body mass index. Those who are considered obese &#8212; along with exhibiting other negative health factors &#8212; will have a year to get in shape. The penalty for failure? A $25 increase in their monthly health insurance costs. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}