{"id":1774,"date":"2009-01-20T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T10:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/magical_mystery\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:40:24","slug":"magical_mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/magical_mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical mystery tub"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m reading my way through a stack<\/strong> of old issues of Metropolis<\/a><\/i> (my sister recently handed me all the back issues from my subscription that she received after I left the country in September \u201906), and this Susan Szenasy editorial<\/a> from March 2007 really resonated with me.<\/p>\n

I love having a good soak in a a good tub, a pleasure that\u2019s become an acute craving now that I can\u2019t even guarantee a quick shower with hot water in the shithole where I currently live. Oaklands<\/a> had a pretty spectacular tub, but even that was easily surpassed by the at my friend\u2019s flat where I house-sit from time to time. That one is pure heaven.<\/p>\n

I agree with Szenasy\u2019s basic requirements for a good tub: deep, made of metal rather than plastic, with a good angle for reclining. I\u2019d add one more feature that can make or break a good bath for me: natural light. There\u2019s something about a generous flood of natural light \u2014 even weak, midwinter British light \u2014 that completes the experience for me.<\/p>\n

Sometimes a nice, hot bath can be so perfectly relaxing that I struggle with it. I\u2019m so used to being tense and stressed out that I can feel my whole body rebel against the relaxing effects of a long, hot soak. In a twisted way, I have to concentrate on letting myself unwind. Sad, but true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m reading my way through a stack of old issues of Metropolis (my sister recently handed me all the back issues from my subscription that she received after I left the country in September \u201906), and this Susan Szenasy editorial from March 2007 really resonated with me. I love having a good soak in a … Continue reading “Magical mystery tub”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74541,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/74541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}