{"id":1215,"date":"2016-05-28T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2016-05-28T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T16:40:22","slug":"the-mountain-has-its-cloak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"The mountain has its cloak&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>of snow swirl and furling cloud, it only gives me glimpses of its sharp-cut faces. I&#8217;ve watched the weather track between the peaks for days, balcony sprawled, the snow bank ridges change from chalk to rose and black streaks break from the mist. This mountain&#8217;s a wonder-of-nature tease, a life&#8217;s work of gazing, from my five a.m. wake-up sprint to see it almost clear, just a fig leaf of vapour puff over the last nobble of stark, plate-spawned rock, to the late-afternoon black rains and full vanishing act. The mountain looks nothing like any picture or clip I&#8217;ve ever seen. No little box can capture it, no scrap of print or flicker. The mountain is cheek-slappingly mountainish, and like no other. I&#8217;d been here five minutes when I knew I&#8217;d have to return, sweet inestimable world this is, these time-spat scattered treasures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160527_154813-e1464451462207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1216 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160527_154813-e1464451462207.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160527_154813\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of snow swirl and furling cloud, it only gives me glimpses of its sharp-cut faces. I&#8217;ve watched the weather track between the peaks for days, balcony sprawled, the snow bank ridges change from chalk to rose and black streaks break from the mist. This mountain&#8217;s a wonder-of-nature tease, a life&#8217;s work of gazing, from my [&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-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}