{"id":1499,"date":"2014-12-02T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2014-11-09T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T05:28:49","slug":"its-not-about-the-body-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2014\/12\/its-not-about-the-body-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not about the body, folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really.<\/p>\n<p>Nudism and naturism, nude recreation, they&#8217;re not about the body, and certainly not the bodies of other people. Many people, certainly the unenlightened ones, will think otherwise. Why else would you hear things like &#8220;<em>when you go to a nude beach you see the people you don&#8217;t want to see<\/em>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mature.adulttrade.net\/pictures\/80\/tn_name2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/>That makes me wonder why such people go to a beach. To stare at others, probably, not to have a relaxing time.<\/p>\n<p>Naturism (for me at least) is about body freedom. The awareness that nearly no body is perfect (mine certainly isn&#8217;t) and that you can be happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not here to be perfect in every way, even when advertising tries to convince us otherwise. They&#8217;re wrong and they just try to get into your wallet. After all, unhappy people are more willing to spend money on &#8216;improving&#8217; themselves than happy people.<\/p>\n<p>Happy people don&#8217;t need all that. It basically comes down to &#8220;<em>Love the person that looks back at you in the mirror, that&#8217;s where it all starts.<\/em>&#8221; (Via twitter, by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AphroditeAfter5\" target=\"_blank\">@AphroditeAfter5<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really. Nudism and naturism, nude recreation, they&#8217;re not about the body, and certainly not the bodies of other people. Many people, certainly the unenlightened ones, will think otherwise. Why else would you hear things like &#8220;when you go to a nude beach you see the people you don&#8217;t want to see&#8220;? That makes me wonder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2014\/12\/its-not-about-the-body-folks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s not about the body, folks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,12],"tags":[18,56,204],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naktivism","category-nudism-2","tag-body-image","tag-freedom","tag-happiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}