{"id":2085,"date":"2020-04-16T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2020-04-16T21:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:15:47","slug":"the-songbirds-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"The songbirds call&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>at four, no traffic hum from the ring road, no gurgling drunks taxi-rolling home. And thousands of lonesome lockdown insomniacs like myself following the phrases. I try to steal back into sleep before the sun comes around, sleep a thick-walled sanctuary from care and the sameness of the waking hours. My dreams are all adventures. When the glare glows too bright I make coffee and set out into the quiet roads for my dash to the shops. And then I work my chores and try to tap a few lines. I read Chekhov for clues on exile, Freud and Hoffmann to chart the uncanny alley we wander now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_115426-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2086 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_115426-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_115426-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_115426-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at four, no traffic hum from the ring road, no gurgling drunks taxi-rolling home. And thousands of lonesome lockdown insomniacs like myself following the phrases. I try to steal back into sleep before the sun comes around, sleep a thick-walled sanctuary from care and the sameness of the waking hours. My dreams are all adventures. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","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=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}