{"id":364,"date":"2008-01-17T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:41:06","slug":"in-at-the-shallow-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"In at the shallow end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I used one of the public computer terminals at Droitwich library, Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting at the terminal next to me was a young girl &#8211; about 12 or 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>She had about her all of the chav trademarks: the shiny tracksuit, the stupidly large hoopy earings, the stuck-on-sideways ponytail, the layered on by trowel makeup, and the trademark chav chewing-gum action that resembled a cow chewing its cud.<\/p>\n<p>I think that underneath this street-cred camouflage was probably quite a pretty girl, but the truth is I had no sure-fire way of being certain.<\/p>\n<p>I sat there looking at the reflection of this 21st century bad-taste android in the glass in front of me and wondered whether or not her parents were pleased with how she&#8217;s turning out.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. She spent the whole time watching music videos on youtube!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I used one of the public computer terminals at Droitwich library, Worcestershire. Sitting at the terminal next to me was a<\/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-364","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\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}