{"id":1821,"date":"2018-09-24T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:00:19","slug":"its-too-bright-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s too bright out there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to work. It tempts the eye and a longing to be out there. I sit and look at the sunflowers and think maybe I should have a dog, a dog that begs walks and then pays for the beer in the valley-crease boozer, leads me tramping away through the flower fields. All those millions of upturned, sun-blanched sunflowers to border the curling roads out at Trafalgar. Eyes staring fifty miles instead of the five inches to this screen. But there&#8217;s no dog and no tramping, no fifty miles, just me and the M&amp;S sunflowers on my work table and Wes Montgomery playing D-Natural Blues. But that aint bad and it&#8217;s not too late for another cup of the tropic nectar. Five paces away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180924_164546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1822\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180924_164546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180924_164546.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180924_164546-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to work. It tempts the eye and a longing to be out there. I sit and look at the sunflowers and think maybe I should have a dog, a dog that begs walks and then pays for the beer in the valley-crease boozer, leads me tramping away through the flower fields. All those millions of [&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-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}