{"id":907,"date":"2009-10-04T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2009-10-04T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:10:40","slug":"weekend-bonus-jimmy-moore-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/04\/weekend-bonus-jimmy-moore-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Bonus: Jimmy Moore Is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Moore and his wife Christine attended a wedding in Nashville this weekend and spent Friday and Saturday nights at our house in Franklin.\u00a0 It was hard to believe it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve met Jimmy in person.\u00a0 For nearly two years now, I&#8217;ve listened to his podcasts and read his blog.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve spoken on the phone, exchanged a lot of emails, and made a few connections for each other.\u00a0 He, of course, has also seen <em>Fat Head,<\/em> interviewed me for a podcast,\u00a0and reads my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, it felt more like a meeting of old friends than a first get-together.\u00a0 Jimmy and Christine are both intelligent, affable people, and we enjoyed their company very much.\u00a0 The only downside is that I&#8217;m reasonably sure Jimmy drove home this morning with a few bruises, courtesy of my daughters jumping on him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/images\/JimmyTom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/07\/jimmy-and-monica-a-tale-from-the-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\">In an earlier post<\/a>, I promised my readers I&#8217;d check Jimmy&#8217;s pulse to make sure he&#8217;s real.\u00a0 After all, this is a guy with a family history of heart disease who lives on a very high-fat diet and refuses to take statins for his high cholesterol, but recently scored a zero on a calcium test.\u00a0 According to those who worship at the altar of the Lipid Hypothesis, he&#8217;s not supposed to exist.\u00a0 Or as his doctor put it when reading the results, &#8220;That&#8217;s not possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is possible.\u00a0 My careful lab tests, conducted in our kitchen, provide conclusive evidence that Jimmy is human and doing quite well, thank you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/images\/JimmyPulse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/images\/JimmyChristine.jpg\" alt=\"The Wedding Crashers?\" width=\"450\" height=\"377\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wedding Crashers?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Moore and his wife Christine attended a wedding in Nashville this weekend and spent Friday and Saturday nights at our house in Franklin.\u00a0 It was hard to believe it&#8217;s&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/04\/weekend-bonus-jimmy-moore-is-real\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}