{"id":1275,"date":"2016-07-06T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2016-07-06T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:41:01","slug":"the-greatest-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"The greatest distraction&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is reality, says Riverman, stopping to pat another cat. We&#8217;re walking back from the Anchor, I&#8217;ve bought him a couple of jars of IPA in the first sunshine day of July. He&#8217;s merry, crouching by the puss in his oily, ruined cord jacket and the jeans he&#8217;s worn through winter. Think of all the hours you&#8217;ve wasted checking the news this last week and two, he smiles, when you could have been dreaming up better stories. Current affairs is no more than fortune&#8217;s wheel, but people are scared of calling it that, they say it&#8217;s politick and important as though this world runs to a plan. There&#8217;s no plan.<\/p>\n<p>I went on that march, I tell him.<\/p>\n<p>Fat lot of good it did you, better off fishing. Nobody gets hurt fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Bar the fish, I say. But he&#8217;s gone down the street chuckling, not listening, bow-legged shuffling to the next cat lying out in the late-afternoon sun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cat2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1276\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cat2.jpg\" alt=\"cat2\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cat2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/cat2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is reality, says Riverman, stopping to pat another cat. We&#8217;re walking back from the Anchor, I&#8217;ve bought him a couple of jars of IPA in the first sunshine day of July. He&#8217;s merry, crouching by the puss in his oily, ruined cord jacket and the jeans he&#8217;s worn through winter. Think of all the hours [&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-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}