{"id":1344,"date":"2016-10-05T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2016-10-05T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:06:48","slug":"i-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"I retreat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>into the clutter of books and music that always saves me, makes me think it&#8217;s worth stamping the dust. The vocal refrain from <em>A Love Supreme<\/em>. Frank and Django on guitar, Starbuck in <em>The Whale<\/em>, London rain in <em>Autumn Journal<\/em>, a glass of porter and <em>Native Son<\/em>, Chandler and Hem and <em>Riders to the Sea<\/em>, <em>Guernica<\/em> and a private viewing of Homer&#8217;s <em>The Gulf Stream<\/em>, a martini afterwards, <em>My Darling Clementine<\/em>, Bill Hicks and <em>Le Cercle Rouge<\/em>, all those French movies, and Boethius, Cicero, Lucretius, the Library of the Dead, the timid artists, the daubers and splatterers, all of them within lazy reach on the shelves. And none of these distractions worth, equal or more mysterious than a single moment with someone you love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20160930_182619-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1345\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20160930_182619-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_20160930_182619-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20160930_182619-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20160930_182619-1-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>into the clutter of books and music that always saves me, makes me think it&#8217;s worth stamping the dust. The vocal refrain from A Love Supreme. Frank and Django on guitar, Starbuck in The Whale, London rain in Autumn Journal, a glass of porter and Native Son, Chandler and Hem and Riders to the Sea, [&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-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","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=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}