{"id":2090,"date":"2020-04-27T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:26:45","slug":"been-still-and-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"Been still and warm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and the cat&#8217;s been beheading the tulips. I rescue them for the vase and think of O&#8217;Keeffe colours, the drive up the rutted track to the writer&#8217;s cottage, the enormous sky and the red chile sauce over a wrap of fries, Dave the barman acting Chekhov, lazy talk of the abstract greats and distant LA. I remember drinking beer with a guy, perhaps he was the age I am now, and saying we were heading out in the morning. I joked he should come along for the ride and he shrugged, said there was a time he&#8217;d drop everything, go anywhere just to be moving. But now he just wanted to sit on the porch and drink beer. I&#8217;m not there yet, there are places and things I still want to touch and see. I&#8217;ve miles yet to go, when the curtain lifts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200421_111728-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2091 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200421_111728-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200421_111728-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200421_111728-1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and the cat&#8217;s been beheading the tulips. I rescue them for the vase and think of O&#8217;Keeffe colours, the drive up the rutted track to the writer&#8217;s cottage, the enormous sky and the red chile sauce over a wrap of fries, Dave the barman acting Chekhov, lazy talk of the abstract greats and distant LA. [&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-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","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=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}