{"id":1104,"date":"2016-02-22T22:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2016-02-22T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:58:06","slug":"with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"With age&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>comes wisdom, but that won&#8217;t hold a crowd. Wisdom and truths are for the fireside, the night watch pillow book and the heath. The crowd will stand for youth, they&#8217;ll give them their shout. And they&#8217;ll gather to be entertained. I watch the entertainers on the tv, looking for their crowd. I&#8217;ve skimmed their books, they&#8217;re no good, they won&#8217;t make it into the Library of the Dead, but that was never the hope, the books are just another chance to hold the crowd, they&#8217;re no more important than the interviews and the speeches and the wave to the camera pack, it&#8217;s all about the lights and the crowd. You don&#8217;t have to be a hermit to write a book that&#8217;s worth something, but you might have to be lonely. You hold out from the loneliness on your raft of words. And when the day&#8217;s quota&#8217;s done, you can come down from the keep and step out into the world, crave no lights, crave no crowd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/keep.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1105 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/keep.jpg\" alt=\"keep\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/keep.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/keep-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>comes wisdom, but that won&#8217;t hold a crowd. Wisdom and truths are for the fireside, the night watch pillow book and the heath. The crowd will stand for youth, they&#8217;ll give them their shout. And they&#8217;ll gather to be entertained. I watch the entertainers on the tv, looking for their crowd. I&#8217;ve skimmed their books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}