{"id":173460902,"date":"2010-07-01T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173460902"},"modified":"2010-07-01T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:35:02","slug":"one-mans-quest-better-living-through-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173460902","title":{"rendered":"One man&#8217;s quest: better living through pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KEN HOFFMAN<br \/>\nMatt McClellan was simply tired of people bad-mouthing pizza.<br \/>\n&quot;I didn&#8217;t like them saying pizza was junk food, and that it&#8217;s no good for you, and it will make you fat,&quot; he said.<br \/>\nSo McClellan, who owns a pizzeria in St. Petersburg, Fla., decided &quot;I&#8217;ll show you,&quot; and went on a crash 30-day, pizza-only diet.<br \/>\nHe lost 24 pounds. His cholesterol dropped from 243 to 157. And his body fat fell from 19.8 percent to 9 percent.<br \/>\nNow to spread the gospel of pizza as health food, McClellan is riding his bicycle from St. Pete to New York City. He was in Maryland when I spoke with him Tuesday night. He is scheduled to pedal into Times Square on July 4.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/life\/hoffman\/7088536.html\">https:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/life\/hoffman\/7088536.html<\/a>oldId.20100701153502308<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KEN HOFFMAN Matt McClellan was simply tired of people bad-mouthing pizza. &quot;I didn&#8217;t like them saying pizza was junk food, and that it&#8217;s no good for you, and it will make you fat,&quot; he said. So McClellan, who owns a pizzeria in St. Petersburg, Fla., decided &quot;I&#8217;ll show you,&quot; and went on a crash &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173460902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One man&#8217;s quest: better living through pizza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173460902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173460902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173460902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173460902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173460902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173460902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173460902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}