{"id":1762,"date":"2018-05-30T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2018-05-30T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:29:40","slug":"houses-are-an-accumulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Houses are an accumulation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>of layers and masks. If you ignore enough paint chips, wall cracks, leaning doors and scratched glass and can keep adding to the costume you get emergence, you&#8217;re at home. Then you have to learn the mood of the rooms and spaces, the random and predicted creaks and clatters, the stair ascents and quiet zones, all inside the roaming of a few private rooms. But hidden under the paint and plaster, the rough fabric does its sentry duty while you flick through <em>Satori in Paris<\/em> &#8211; oh, Jack, there&#8217;s barely a page goes by without you calling out for a cognac stiffener, and like Ginsberg said, the ghost of your father leans hard upon you, out tramping the roads &#8211; thinking of Brest and how you just missed it in the Brittany mists, a shore too far. I lie here musing on Jack&#8217;s words and warnings, my own half-forgotten journeys, the mudslide build up of the years, what chances might yet come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180530_104730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1765\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180530_104730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180530_104730.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180530_104730-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of layers and masks. If you ignore enough paint chips, wall cracks, leaning doors and scratched glass and can keep adding to the costume you get emergence, you&#8217;re at home. Then you have to learn the mood of the rooms and spaces, the random and predicted creaks and clatters, the stair ascents and quiet zones, [&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-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}