{"id":1551,"date":"2017-03-26T18:16:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2017-03-26T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:16:35","slug":"i-got-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"I got sick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>no warning, just a scratch in my chest but that night I pulled the covers tight, shivered and hacked in the fever-tossed sheets. Next day I was wheezing, lungs bubbling and ticking, too hot or too cold, hypothalamus shot. I&#8217;d been working hard and long on the pages, exhausted, a bad batch of words had infected me. That night I dreamed of log cabin hideaways and clearings in the firs, wolves padding nearby and a last match to strike for salvation. And then today I surfaced for a walk in the woods, came upon a tree uprooted. My kid shot up there and froze on the descent. I had to make my way up the trunk to the rescue, legs wobbling, old boots worn glass-smooth from wear, from too many long roads and wrong turns. But I got her down. And we climbed out of the valley, light spilling from everything, air clean and fresh after the fug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_20170326_131023-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1553\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_20170326_131023-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_20170326_131023-1-1.jpg 669w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_20170326_131023-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no warning, just a scratch in my chest but that night I pulled the covers tight, shivered and hacked in the fever-tossed sheets. Next day I was wheezing, lungs bubbling and ticking, too hot or too cold, hypothalamus shot. I&#8217;d been working hard and long on the pages, exhausted, a bad batch of words had [&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-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}