{"id":1983,"date":"2020-01-04T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T10:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2020-01-04T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T22:45:07","slug":"burroughs-had-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Burroughs had visitors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>at the ranch, young admirers who asked him what he thought of the current president. He didn&#8217;t know who was in the job, didn&#8217;t follow the news from decade to decade. So the tale goes, something I read in one of the US magazines. I&#8217;ve been wondering about my own attempt at disengagement from the instant snap and clamour of the news, if not as thorough. I was too close to it last year, squandered too many hours. Maybe Burroughs was only interested in the old stories, the ancient dust. He&#8217;s on my mind this cold morning, still in print but I suspect membership of the beat myth &#8211; the half-forgotten daydreams of nations &#8211; the sordid tales recounted in the bios and the cut ups are more his legacy than the books. I&#8217;ve been cutting up the plans I&#8217;m making, the fledgling strategy, wondering if there&#8217;s a clearer route to decode from my tangled draftings. Hoping for a signal to come bouncing back out of the inky neuron weave, a clue to something unimagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CU.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CU.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CU-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at the ranch, young admirers who asked him what he thought of the current president. He didn&#8217;t know who was in the job, didn&#8217;t follow the news from decade to decade. So the tale goes, something I read in one of the US magazines. I&#8217;ve been wondering about my own attempt at disengagement from 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-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}