{"id":141962,"date":"2010-01-05T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5440750"},"modified":"2010-01-05T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T22:00:56","slug":"beautifulpeople-dating-site-kicks-5000-members-off-for-letting-themselves-go-dating-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/141962","title":{"rendered":"BeautifulPeople Dating Site Kicks 5,000 Members Off For &#8220;Letting Themselves Go&#8221; [Dating Sites]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2010\/01\/beautifulpeople.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" \/>Are you a member of the dating site BeautifulPeople.com? We expect all Giz readers to be suitable. If you happened to put on a bit of weight over Christmas though, bad news&mdash;you&#8217;ve been thrown off.<\/p>\n<p>The dating site for purely those good looking (and conceited) enough to join booted 5,000 members off after Christmas for &#8220;letting themselves go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hintze, site founder flexed his business mind with these powerful words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld. Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And they weren&#8217;t just snacking on hamburgers and fries, with 1,520 being thrown off from the US, and a healthy representation from the yorkshire pudding-munching UK, maple syrup-guzzling Canada, then a smaller number from Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Turkey and Russia. 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We expect all Giz readers to be suitable. If you happened to put on a bit of weight over Christmas though, bad news&mdash;you&#8217;ve been thrown off. The dating site for purely those good looking (and conceited) enough to join booted 5,000 members off after Christmas for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}