{"id":29481,"date":"2022-01-23T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29481"},"modified":"2022-01-23T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T19:06:03","slug":"why-brian-j-is-looking-at-the-floor-at-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/23\/why-brian-j-is-looking-at-the-floor-at-the-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Brian J. Is Looking At The Floor At The Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s a new genre of Internet video where a woman berates a man who was looking at her while she exercises at a gym.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen the videos themselves, but the British tabloids have run a number of stories of them over the last couple of weeks, but perhaps the tide is turning.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-10399181\/A-woman-thanked-man-not-looking-bum-gym-gets-slammed-commenters.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman who filmed man behind her while she was working out at the gym divides opinion after revealing she was pleased her &#8216;booty wasn&#8217;t his focus&#8217; &#8211; with some saying she shouldn&#8217;t have had her camera on him at all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m hopeful this plays out soon.<\/p>\n<p>Being a creepy looking guy, I&#8217;m always self conscious about whether I&#8217;m making eye contact too long with women at the gym already.  This little bit just worsened my self-consciousness and probably made me even creepier.  Perhaps I should not flick my tongue over my dry lips quite so much.  And try a disarming smile that comes out a smirk.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I should stare at the floor harder.<\/p>\n<p>I am exaggerating for comic effect <em>a little<\/em>, but not entirely.  What I am indicating clearly, though, is how British tabloid headlines directly effect my perception of the world I live in and my behavior.  Which is as embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s a new genre of Internet video where a woman berates a man who was looking at her while she exercises at a gym. I haven&#8217;t seen the videos themselves, but the British tabloids have run a number of stories of them over the last couple of weeks, but perhaps the tide is turning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29485,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions\/29485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}