{"id":2210,"date":"2020-11-02T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:43:21","slug":"boreas-blows-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Boreas blows in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for November, waking me in the small hours in the dormer box we grafted atop our semi. Whistles, snaps and thuds wobble the steel frames of the windows and a neighbour&#8217;s watering can tumbles and tolls about the lawn. The winter crush is coming, venting out the last warm air for the sting of the morning cold when I pad down to feed the cat and make first coffee. The country is locking down again and the goose ain&#8217;t getting fat. Will be a pang to see the new bookstore close its doors, I&#8217;m no devotee of the company but they deserved a better shot at making it work. And the library too, though the visits are grim enough already, thinned shelves and a plastic crate for returns, a three day quarantine before they scan them in. How many months will it last, hard to trust the dates we&#8217;re given. But here&#8217;s change, working around us. Some find opportunity in the closings, firewood from a felled tree, while others look on in wonder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201031_110423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2208 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201031_110423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201031_110423.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201031_110423-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for November, waking me in the small hours in the dormer box we grafted atop our semi. Whistles, snaps and thuds wobble the steel frames of the windows and a neighbour&#8217;s watering can tumbles and tolls about the lawn. The winter crush is coming, venting out the last warm air for the sting of the [&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-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}