{"id":1650,"date":"2009-05-21T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-04-10T08:54:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T07:54:26","slug":"getting-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Getting felt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>No, not a synonym for touching cotton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I was in the Westminster tube station at 12.59. There was more human traffic around than usual &#8211; the Victoria line is on strike today.<\/p>\n<p>My mind was wondering so far away I really don&#8217;t know where it was. &#8216;Zoned out&#8217; is the phrase that Soph and I use to describe that kind of almost but not quite hypnotised state of &#8216;other worldliness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I was on the &#8216;up&#8217; escalator from the Jubilee line. The hand that was caressing my bum was gentle, soothing. I shifted my weight and it slipped across and cupped my right cheek.<\/p>\n<p>And then the penny dropped. Where I was. And that Soph was not standing behind me. I snapped upwards from my &#8216;leaning on the banister&#8217; position and turned around.<\/p>\n<p>Female. Blonde. Early 30s. Dyed blonde. Black dress. Cleavage. Leather jacket. Smile.<\/p>\n<p>I think I smiled back.<\/p>\n<p>She removed her hand as the escalator fed itself in to the jaws of the floor and I scampered on my way with more alacrity than normal and left her behind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too sure how I feel about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of flattered I think. But a little&#8230; strange.<\/p>\n<p>Does that make sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not a synonym for touching cotton So I was in the Westminster tube station at 12.59. There was more human traffic around than usual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}