{"id":1963,"date":"2019-11-29T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:15:37","slug":"a-silver-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"A silver thread&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>of free expression via daubings on the hoardings. Coded art for morning wanderers, collectors of biscuits, coffee bandits. There was religion in the markings but they&#8217;ve been wiped away by the orange-vested site porters, only the silver streak remains. It speaks more to me than the original marker scratchings. But this quadrant of the town is rich in godly souls, I see robes and staffs on my Banbury Road driftings, I saw a guy standing in a bus shelter earlier this week holding up a number-plate-size sign with JESUS printed across it in orange letters. I don&#8217;t think he was waiting for a bus. There are sanctums here, quiet lodges with 70s fittings and floral wallpaper where theology seeps from the bricks and shag carpets. Perhaps the site message was for these more-godly residents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191129_100752-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191129_100752-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191129_100752-1-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of free expression via daubings on the hoardings. Coded art for morning wanderers, collectors of biscuits, coffee bandits. There was religion in the markings but they&#8217;ve been wiped away by the orange-vested site porters, only the silver streak remains. It speaks more to me than the original marker scratchings. But this quadrant of the town [&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-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}