{"id":2283,"date":"2021-04-27T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:00:35","slug":"dead-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Dead friends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>are never far away in my thoughts. I rode out to the edge of the city, where the factory line stops and the fields and lanes start. The break is sudden. I was in the country &#8211; as wild as the English country gets &#8211; and riding through a village of brick and flint houses, a green, the memorial to those lost in the wars. Something clicked. Dead friends tapped me on the shoulder. I&#8217;m as close to them now as I was the day they left. Only some of the background changes, and the wear and tear of the miles and the years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_20210423_152952-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2284 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_20210423_152952-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_20210423_152952-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_20210423_152952-1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>are never far away in my thoughts. I rode out to the edge of the city, where the factory line stops and the fields and lanes start. The break is sudden. I was in the country &#8211; as wild as the English country gets &#8211; and riding through a village of brick and flint houses, [&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-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","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=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}