{"id":1912,"date":"2019-06-15T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:23:35","slug":"been-no-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"Been no time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>to trawl the banks looking for the cat donor, I&#8217;ve been in the tunnel trying to clear fifty thousand words. You have to carve the hours out of the day to write, the sand in the glass is always falling. I try to avoid the lure of current affairs, it&#8217;s too fleeting and worthless. The old machines don&#8217;t work in the new age, nobody is up to the job, none of the players are clean. But it&#8217;s hard to look away, even harder to turn the router off. Soon there&#8217;ll be no off-switch and the devices will be conversing. But I have my escape plan. I have an Eden in mind, just me, the family and the cat &#8211; if he wants to come along. He might prefer the urban scene, he&#8217;s a Barton bruiser by birth. But it&#8217;s only when you reach your Eden that you understand the depths of your folly. I&#8217;ll have some years left to reflect, listening to the sea from a hammock in the orchard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190615_164632.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190615_164632.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190615_164632-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to trawl the banks looking for the cat donor, I&#8217;ve been in the tunnel trying to clear fifty thousand words. You have to carve the hours out of the day to write, the sand in the glass is always falling. I try to avoid the lure of current affairs, it&#8217;s too fleeting and worthless. The [&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-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}