{"id":2166,"date":"2020-07-31T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:19:00","slug":"i-discard-most-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"I discard most of it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>keep only a few lines. I get bored of riffing, ranting, setting the scene, it gets chopped as I read through. I&#8217;m not sure you have to do that, give more than a sentence or two on the room, the face or life before. I&#8217;m drawn to the fat-trimmers, exposition and backstory all sliced, digressions guillotined. These posts are my meanderings, the story I&#8217;m trying to write is a surgical strike, sudden and jarring as a shout in the night. In, out, gone before the reader can look over their shoulder and shudder. I walk the riverways trying to lay it out in my thoughts, most of it still just out of reach, hidden behind the curtains of willows, rushes and dual-carriageway embankments. Spooked by it. My as yet unformed familiar, always at the edge of the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_20200731_075515-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2167 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_20200731_075515-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_20200731_075515-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_20200731_075515-1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>keep only a few lines. I get bored of riffing, ranting, setting the scene, it gets chopped as I read through. I&#8217;m not sure you have to do that, give more than a sentence or two on the room, the face or life before. I&#8217;m drawn to the fat-trimmers, exposition and backstory all sliced, digressions [&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-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","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=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}