{"id":1855,"date":"2019-01-31T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2019-01-31T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:49:25","slug":"down-at-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Down at ten&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the coffee doesn&#8217;t help. Hot milk keeps it hotter, milkless as I am the cup is cold too-quick inside my cupped hands. You can blow breath at ten. But I don&#8217;t warrant the rads, I drag out an oil heater I got for the builders, when the walls were down and the snow set on the insulation blocks. That gets it up to 16. I can hold out until the house rads come on in the late afternoon. And then I have to fight for the 20 degree buffer as the night comes down, shutting doors and closing curtains. They say it&#8217;ll snow hard tonight, but it gets warmer then. It&#8217;s coldest with the clear skies when you can count the hour on one hand, I can see the stars out and the airships blinking as they cross the cloth, not a murmur of wind, no traffic hum or yelp of life. Under the press of the boundless void. Scanning for ancient light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190131_132052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1856\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190131_132052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190131_132052.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20190131_132052-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the coffee doesn&#8217;t help. Hot milk keeps it hotter, milkless as I am the cup is cold too-quick inside my cupped hands. You can blow breath at ten. But I don&#8217;t warrant the rads, I drag out an oil heater I got for the builders, when the walls were down and the snow set on [&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-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}