{"id":9060,"date":"2025-05-30T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:04:17","slug":"entitled-coupl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"Entitled Coupl."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"919\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2670-919x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2670-919x1024.jpeg 919w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2670-269x300.jpeg 269w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2670-768x856.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2670.jpeg 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I Paid for Two Seats \u2014 And I Deserved Them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m Carly. I\u2019m 32, and I live in a body the world feels entitled to comment on. I\u2019m obese \u2014 not the \u201ccute nickname\u201d kind \u2014 the kind people openly judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why, when I fly alone, I always buy two seats. Not for comfort, but for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a recent work trip, I paid $176 for an extra seat. As I settled in, a couple showed up and took the empty seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI paid for both,\u201d I told them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They laughed. \u201cSeriously? Just for you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then came the insult: \u201cYou\u2019re being a fat jerk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I let it go. But once in the air, I made sure to claim my space \u2014 elbows out, chips out. Eventually, the man complained to a flight attendant. She checked the records and confirmed: the seat was mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was moved. His girlfriend sneered, \u201cPathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reported the comment. The crew filed a harassment report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, I got an email: the couple was flagged, and I received 10,000 bonus miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That flight reminded me: I don\u2019t owe anyone smallness. I deserve space \u2014 and next time someone tries to shame me for it, I\u2019ll be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Paid for Two Seats \u2014 And I Deserved Them I\u2019m Carly. I\u2019m 32, and I live in a body the world feels entitled to comment on&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9062,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}