{"id":569,"date":"2007-07-17T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T09:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=569"},"modified":"2007-07-17T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T09:25:53","slug":"the-power-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"The power of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is not a culture where touch is natural. We don&#8217;t feel very confident in the presence of others, therefore touch is not natural, it&#8217;s not organic, and the word &#8216;touch&#8217; is so misused.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Polish massage therapist Beata Aleksandrowicz commenting on the British<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a touchy-feelly person &#8211; I like to kiss women on the cheek, hug male friends, and even touch the arm or shoulder of colleagues. But this is not very British and some people &#8211; including some of my closest friends &#8211; find touch uncomfortable and obviously I respect that and refrain from it in their presence.<br \/>\nOf course, touch is not always appropriate or welcome &#8211; but, in so many situations, it can have a really powerful and positive effect as explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,2127938,00.html\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is not a culture where touch is natural. We don&#8217;t feel very confident in the presence of others, therefore touch is not natural, it&#8217;s not organic, and the word &#8216;touch&#8217; is so misused.&#8221; Polish massage therapist Beata Aleksandrowicz commenting on the British I&#8217;m a touchy-feelly person &#8211; I like to kiss women on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}