{"id":1418,"date":"2016-12-06T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2016-12-06T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:46:48","slug":"too-much-murk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Too much murk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for sun today, dark on waking, dark as I prepare my last coffee of the day. Murk dirt-white as the steam in Furnas, colour of the sea off Rif, watching the snowfall from the hot tub. Murk dark as the inside of a cow, Twain&#8217;s tales from the prairie. Murk of receipts and ledgers, the bescarfed clerk&#8217;s dribbling nose. Murk of Mega-City One&#8217;s lower levels, of the dust kicked up in Lucky Luke&#8217;s Ghost Town. I hide in books and chip away at tasks. I&#8217;ll ride the boats in, battle for the beach and then stretch out in the headland grass. Surface skimmer, strip away my cares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161206_074906-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1419\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161206_074906-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161206_074906-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161206_074906-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161206_074906-1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for sun today, dark on waking, dark as I prepare my last coffee of the day. Murk dirt-white as the steam in Furnas, colour of the sea off Rif, watching the snowfall from the hot tub. Murk dark as the inside of a cow, Twain&#8217;s tales from the prairie. Murk of receipts and ledgers, the [&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-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}