{"id":2051,"date":"2020-03-23T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:22:37","slug":"you-cant-stop-the-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t stop the atoms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>getting through, they&#8217;re tiny malevolent meteorites against the motes of dust big as planets. My mask is for sanding, stripping down the construction timber I got for a tenner from the recycling shop. I&#8217;m shelving the study, making way for a second desk. The house is our ice station now, last fortress against the blizzard biting. I gaze out, wondering when the all-clear will sound. It could be Sep before the schools go back, could be later. I feel shoved online more than ever, yearn for the physical world. But the physical world is hostile, confinement means we must travel in the mind for a while. I&#8217;ve laid in my stores. I have millions of pages stockpiled, <em>The Anatomy of Melancholy<\/em> and <em>The Golden Bough<\/em> can take opening bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200323_164244-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200323_164244-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200323_164244-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>getting through, they&#8217;re tiny malevolent meteorites against the motes of dust big as planets. My mask is for sanding, stripping down the construction timber I got for a tenner from the recycling shop. I&#8217;m shelving the study, making way for a second desk. The house is our ice station now, last fortress against the blizzard [&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-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}