{"id":6379,"date":"2012-01-23T23:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2012-01-23T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:27:41","slug":"shiny-shoes-and-passing-money-on-a-parisian-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6379","title":{"rendered":"Shiny shoes and a chance meeting on a Parisian street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wore my Dress shoes to work today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m preparing my feet for the Ball on Saturday. There may be some tripping the light fantastic. Or stumbling the heavy mediocre &#8211; that might be more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Or there may not be. But either way, I want my feet to be uncomplaining about my Dress shoes.<\/p>\n<p>And how is it that my Dress shoes are a 10-1\/2 whilst my work shoes are an 11?<\/p>\n<p>But one thing is clear.<\/p>\n<p>For today at least, I had the brightest, shiniest shoes at work.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You know I recently wrote about meeting the redoubtable Twitter friend in UCH last Thursday?<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t Twitter related, but last weekend, whilst in Paris, I met an American girl, Amy-Lee.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to write about what happened during the couple of hours we spent together. If you want the details you&#8217;ll have to listen to this week&#8217;s show (<a title=\"TRP, show No 199\" href=\"http:\/\/thisrealitypodcast.com\/?p=2314\" target=\"_blank\">This Reality Podcast, No 199<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What I will say is that today I received a stunningly beautiful email from Amy-Lee. So stunningly beautiful it moved me close to tears.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of a couple of hours in Paris with Amy-Lee, I have an open invitation to visit her in Philadelphia whenever I care, and to stay at her house, as an honoured guest, for an all-expenses paid holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t people excellent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wore my Dress shoes to work today. I&#8217;m preparing my feet for the Ball on Saturday. There may be some tripping the light fantastic.<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","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\/6379","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=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}