{"id":1370,"date":"2016-10-23T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2016-10-24T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T17:06:45","slug":"i-wonder-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Hamilton stared out from an orangery or boat house over there, gin-sipping, sleeping it off under the willows. He traded the thunder of the Euston Road for upriver plenty but he carried the glassware along. I&#8217;ve read stories of people visiting and finding themselves legless before lunch; a three bottles a day man. Didn&#8217;t stop him writing better pages than most of the between-wars lot. I stamp along the bank, trying to imagine a life there, sun rooms and staff and something shiny and fast waiting on the driveway. It doesn&#8217;t seem like much to long for, and that could explain why I&#8217;ll never get it. You have to believe in the magic trick for it to work. Sceptics and septics get to plod the riverpaths, chasing other dreams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20161023_143742-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1371\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20161023_143742-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161023_143742-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20161023_143742-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20161023_143742-1-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Hamilton stared out from an orangery or boat house over there, gin-sipping, sleeping it off under the willows. He traded the thunder of the Euston Road for upriver plenty but he carried the glassware along. I&#8217;ve read stories of people visiting and finding themselves legless before lunch; a three bottles a day man. Didn&#8217;t [&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-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}