{"id":2002,"date":"2020-01-27T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:53:44","slug":"crude-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Crude mechanics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>but these mortice locks have been around for centuries. This one I&#8217;ve untombed might be 40 years or older, and sophisticated enough for me to flip the latch bolt and move it to another door. Energy stored and released for decades in a spring. I add my mark to the lever numbers and other trade codes. A process revealed, age pulls the curtain back on some things. In the last run of fiction I read I sensed what was at work, picked out a moment when I knew I was hooked and understood how the writer had done it. I&#8217;ve been at it so long I can see the levers. But those are the scam books, the entertainments and adventures, no disgrace there but no contest with lived experience. Some books offer more. Those you can&#8217;t open up like my lock, you go to turn the fastening screw and the whole device vanishes under your fingers. They&#8217;re not put together with springs and levers. And I&#8217;m no closer to unravelling their magic weft than I was when I first turned a page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200127_105109-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200127_105109-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200127_105109-1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but these mortice locks have been around for centuries. This one I&#8217;ve untombed might be 40 years or older, and sophisticated enough for me to flip the latch bolt and move it to another door. Energy stored and released for decades in a spring. I add my mark to the lever numbers and other trade [&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-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}