{"id":2111,"date":"2020-05-05T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T07:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2020-05-05T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T07:59:20","slug":"roads-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Roads revisited&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and reflecting on the guy in Taos, I wonder if his dunroamin&#8217; days came on in stages. Already in the first moments of departure I begin to enjoy the prospect of the journey back more than the venture out, but that could be because so many of my journeys lack glamour or novelty. And I fret more as I age, about the humdrum perils of delays, checks and other hassles. But these things never used to cross my mind, just to be moving was desirable. I&#8217;m more protective and want control of my time now, though I&#8217;m a dismal housekeeper of the hours. Or it could be that I&#8217;m more conscious of the horde, that I &#8211; and no other &#8211; can make accurate inventory of minutes left. Disarmed by the not-knowing I pace and waste the gushing seconds. So the stages creep on and I barely notice them. What was unimaginable is slowly gained by this gentle creep, until all longing to see a new valley or cove is gone. I&#8217;ll resist that, put down a marker. I&#8217;ve still far to go, stomping in my reality boots &#8211; with a nod to Jack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200505_074051-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2109 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200505_074051-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200505_074051-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200505_074051-1-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and reflecting on the guy in Taos, I wonder if his dunroamin&#8217; days came on in stages. Already in the first moments of departure I begin to enjoy the prospect of the journey back more than the venture out, but that could be because so many of my journeys lack glamour or novelty. And I [&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-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}