{"id":8803,"date":"2011-12-26T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/12\/26\/celebrating-the-end-of-the-gluttony-season-but-the-effects-linger\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T07:00:01","slug":"celebrating-the-end-of-the-gluttony-season-but-the-effects-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20111226-01\/?p=8803","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the end of the gluttony season, but the effects linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Ferry system has reduced the rated carrying capacity of its fleet because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirotv.com\/news\/ap\/transportation\/obesity-rise-prompts-wash-ferries-capacity-change\/nF7FZ\/\"> people have gotten fatter<\/a>: The average weight of an adult passenger has been officially revised from 160 pounds to 185 pounds. (That&#8217;s from 11 stone 6 to 13 stone 3 in the UK, or from 73kg to 84kg for the rest of the world.)\n This has happened before: In 1999, the rated capacity of Washington State ferries dropped when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/health\/nutritionfit\/stories\/seats041599hp.htm\"> the previous method for determining seating density was abandoned<\/a> due to passengers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo#t=30s\"> big butts<\/a>. (I recall that <i>The Seattle Times<\/i> printed a ruler next to the article so that for readers could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/asses\"> assess<\/a> their own situation.)\n In other news: Many hospitals, such as our own University of Washington Medical Center, have installed ceiling lifts in all their rooms <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/news\/local\/article_27cb026e-e0e8-11e0-bafc-001cc4c03286.html\"> due to the high number of obese patients<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> (The gluttony seasons begins on Hallowe&#8217;en and ends on Christmas, as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2011\/10\/13\/10224266.aspx\"> officially<\/a> declared by me.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Ferry system has reduced the rated carrying capacity of its fleet because people have gotten fatter: The average weight of an adult passenger has been officially revised from 160 pounds to 185 pounds. (That&#8217;s from 11 stone 6 to 13 stone 3 in the UK, or from 73kg to 84kg for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Washington State Ferry system has reduced the rated carrying capacity of its fleet because people have gotten fatter: The average weight of an adult passenger has been officially revised from 160 pounds to 185 pounds. (That&#8217;s from 11 stone 6 to 13 stone 3 in the UK, or from 73kg to 84kg for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}