{"id":3624,"date":"2011-06-13T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/06\/13\/setting-the-scene\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T10:47:00","slug":"setting-the-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/06\/13\/setting-the-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"setting, the scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

An excerpt<\/a> from the journal of Metrocentric<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Across from the pub, an office building, presenting to us its side elevation. A column of windows, about half a dozen in height.<\/p>\n

In many workplaces people making or taking calls on their mobile phones will leave their desks and make their way to a more anonymous part of the building: a corridor, a stairway, a lift lobby. There they stand and shuffle as they speak – if there is a window they will typically look out of it for all or part of the call.<\/p>\n

It was that part of the afternoon in which anyone going back to the office would have done so, and the post-work clientele had yet to appear. I was drinking Bombardier, because he got the first round in and he can’t ask for lager, he says.<\/p>\n

Every now and then a face and torso would appear at one of the windows opposite. At one point there were four. Four in a row. “Connect Four!”, I remarked. All this was happening behind him.<\/p>\n

Once, when all four fully presented themselves at the window, and none were crouched into themselves in their phone calls, and two were gesticulating, the sun came out; the light fell on all four. The squares of window stood out against the dark concrete. It was like looking at a grand opera stage set: they could have flung the glass aside and burst into song.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excerpt from the journal of Metrocentric: Across from the pub, an office building, presenting to us its side elevation. A column of windows, about half a dozen in height. In many workplaces people making or taking calls on their mobile phones will leave their desks and make their way to a more anonymous part … Continue reading “setting, the scene”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,308,9],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friends","tag-livejournal","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}