{"id":5054,"date":"2014-02-28T23:02:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2014-02-28T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:02:53","slug":"personal_space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/personal_space\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My body is wider than it really is.<\/p>\n<p>There is this concept of personal space: the space around you that psychologically &#8220;belongs&#8221; to you. If people get inside that space, you feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that my physical body also extends outside of itself. When people walk towards me in a tight place, such as a narrow pavement, I often misjudge the space we have.<\/p>\n<p>They walk towards me. I walk straight ahead, and I&#8217;m right up against the wall on my other side, and I can&#8217;t get out of their way.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure we will walk right into each other. I brace for impact.<\/p>\n<p>And then: nothing. Maybe our elbows brush, barely. Maybe not even that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My body is wider than it really is. There is this concept of personal space: the space around you that psychologically &#8220;belongs&#8221; to you. If people get inside that space, you feel uncomfortable. I&#8217;ve noticed that my physical body also extends outside of itself. When people walk towards me in a tight place, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observing_the_self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}