{"id":73,"date":"2025-07-25T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/word\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:33:32","slug":"fat-is-the-great-desideratum-of-an-arab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/samuelwhitebaker\/fat-is-the-great-desideratum-of-an-arab\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat is the great desideratum of an Arab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fat is the great desideratum of an Arab. His head, as I have described, should be a mass of grease; he rubs his body with oil or other ointment; his clothes, i.e. his one garment or tope, is covered with grease, and internally he swallows as much as he can procure.<\/p>\n<p>The great Sheik Abou Sinn, who is upward of eighty, as upright as a dart, a perfect Hercules, and whose children and grandchildren are like the sand of the sea-shore, has always consumed daily throughout his life two rottolis (pounds) of melted butter. A short time before I left the country he married a new young wife about fourteen years of age. This may be a hint to octogenarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat is the great desideratum of an Arab. His head, as I have described, should be a mass of grease; he rubs his body with oil or other ointment; his clothes, i.e. his one garment or tope, is covered with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fat is the great desideratum of an Arab - Samuel White Baker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aberth.com\/samuelwhitebaker\/fat-is-the-great-desideratum-of-an-arab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fat is the great desideratum of an Arab - Samuel White Baker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fat is the great desideratum of an Arab. 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