{"id":3384,"date":"2009-08-26T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T06:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2009-08-25T23:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:00:21","slug":"flesh-on-parade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"Flesh On Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/gokwan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"116\" \/>Gok Wan is a name that I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be using on this blog. I&#8217;m not into fashion, boring as it might sound I prefer practical, always have. However he does make fashion fun and he&#8217;s got a surplus of charisma that tends to enthuse rather than repulse me as some over the top TV stars tend to.<\/p>\n<p>I think the reason that I like Gok as a personality is that he is always positive and presents one of my favourite &#8220;chewing gum&#8221; programmes, &#8220;How To Look Good Naked&#8221;. I say chewing gum as it&#8217;s chewing gum for the mind in a way. I detest programmes like &#8220;The Swan&#8221;, or &#8220;Extreme Makeover&#8221; because the person getting &#8220;the treatment&#8221; is physically very different by the time the so called experts have finished with them. While there is undoubted merit in enhancing a person&#8217;s physical appearance to give them the confidence to change their lives I find it difficult to understand why anyone would want to turn out as a carbon copy of Tyra Banks.<\/p>\n<p>So Gok&#8217;s softer approach, emphasising how to maximise what you&#8217;ve got is much more to my liking. It&#8217;s also much more practical for the majority of us mortals who don&#8217;t have a suitcase full of money as required by the cosmetic surgery biased formats.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the idea of conformity as a comfort blanket and hate blind acceptance of widely held attitudes without something more than popular opinion to back them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gok Wan is a name that I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be using on this blog. I&#8217;m not into fashion, boring as it might sound I prefer practical, always have. However &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3384\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8786,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/8786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}