{"id":1556,"date":"2017-04-08T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T20:33:59","slug":"waterside-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Waterside characters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>earn their keep from the flow and those who ferry about. Riverman makes a buck helping out at the narrowboat yard, he knows engines. And he can live on five pounds a day, alongside barter and a few veg boxes. He&#8217;s alone, even catless, and you can&#8217;t get any lonelier. He has time to read Mervyn Peake and David Jones, books he borrows from my not-yet shelves, myself being starved of time, though compared to many my afternoons are endless and indolent. If only my scribbled daydreams stood worth recording.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170402_144957-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1557\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170402_144957-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170402_144957-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_20170402_144957-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>earn their keep from the flow and those who ferry about. Riverman makes a buck helping out at the narrowboat yard, he knows engines. And he can live on five pounds a day, alongside barter and a few veg boxes. He&#8217;s alone, even catless, and you can&#8217;t get any lonelier. He has time to read [&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-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}