{"id":1962,"date":"2025-04-12T19:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2025-04-12T19:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:08:01","slug":"a-woman-and-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/a-woman-and-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A woman and a man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Acrylic on canvas \u2013 8 x 8 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

London, 1978. Somewhere in an upscale suburb. A woman leaves her home, a large four-story house. She goes to a pub. It’s her first date with a man she only met a week earlier while Christmas shopping at Liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Alison is just 40\nyears old. She has dedicated her life to her work. Her ultimate goal\nwas to succeed professionally, no matter the cost. No children, no\nserious relationships. Only cats have kept her company. Each death\nhas broken her heart, and yet she still can’t live without a cuddly\npet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took her ages to\nget ready. She’s not used to it anymore; it’s been ages. When she\nlooks in the mirror, she sees an aging woman, with wrinkles at the\ncorners of her eyes and a sprinkling of white hair. She chooses dark\nblue jeans, a white t-shirt, and a suede jacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subway is\ncrowded. It’s Friday evening, the weather is nice and rather mild for\nApril, so obviously. It’s impossible to find a seat. It’s so hot, she\ncan’t take it anymore. She decides to get out at the next station and\ncontinue on foot, in the fresh air. This stale air underground is\nbothering her so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once outside, on the\nbanks of the Thames, Alison comes back to life. She walks quietly\ndown the street, skirting the business district, which is slowly\nemptying. Suits and ties are scarce, and they head hastily to the\nnearest subway. The lucky ones will celebrate the weekend with a\nglass of white wine for the women and a beer for the men. They will\nmake the world a better place, review their hectic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alison is getting\nclose. She knows the area so well; she worked there in her youth, and\neven though the neighborhood has changed a lot, London’s oldest pub\nremains the same. She crosses the threshold, nearly bumping into a\ngroup of drunken thirty-somethings when suddenly she spots him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He looks at his phone, she can stare at him freely. His red shirt is visible from afar, he dared!
Suddenly, he raises his head, looks for her, sees her, smiles at her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acrylic on canvas \u2013 8 x 8 inch \u2013 Unique work London, 1978. Somewhere in an upscale suburb. A woman leaves her home, a large four-story house. She goes to a pub. It’s her first date with a man she only met a week earlier while Christmas shopping at Liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}