{"id":1851,"date":"2019-01-03T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2019-01-03T18:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:48:57","slug":"no-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"No milk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for a month, an experiment to quit the half pint I&#8217;ve been heating every day for my joe for the last twenty years or so. From the third or fourth cup I don&#8217;t miss it. It was the same with sugar, I quit a two-spoon habit when I stayed at a house in Stockwell with no supplies for a few weeks. No milk in the tropics, living in a hut on Rarotonga. No milk in the village in <em>And<\/em> <em>Quiet Flows the Don<\/em>, the returning combatant cossack&#8217;s new wife branded a witch for spooking the cattle. Only a few pages in and it&#8217;s tugging me away from <em>On the Eve<\/em>. Turgenev&#8217;s dreamy ramblings don&#8217;t have the earth and blood hammer-hit of Sholokhov, like you can smell the ponies and the steppe dust. I thank the stars for the Russian scribes. I thank the stars for the two inches of java juice that keeps me turning the pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190103_090959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1852\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190103_090959.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190103_090959.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190103_090959-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for a month, an experiment to quit the half pint I&#8217;ve been heating every day for my joe for the last twenty years or so. From the third or fourth cup I don&#8217;t miss it. It was the same with sugar, I quit a two-spoon habit when I stayed at a house in Stockwell with [&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-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}