{"id":2306,"date":"2021-06-15T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2021-06-15T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:44:21","slug":"i-allow-myself-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"I allow myself a smile&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>as I ponder my options, conscious that I&#8217;m not pulling the levers on global events, can&#8217;t march into the wood-panelled meeting rooms and demand action. I&#8217;m not rubbing shoulders with the suited leaders but I am in control of how I think and view things, I&#8217;ll take that as enough to be getting on with. If I can be fair and try not to moan about things that&#8217;s a start. I reward myself for my sageness with a bowl of ice cream. For a few sweet moments I fend off the heat and the hayfever scratch &#8211; it&#8217;s come on hard this week &#8211; before any more fretting about planetary driftings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PXL_20210614_151733520-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2307\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PXL_20210614_151733520-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PXL_20210614_151733520-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PXL_20210614_151733520-1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as I ponder my options, conscious that I&#8217;m not pulling the levers on global events, can&#8217;t march into the wood-panelled meeting rooms and demand action. I&#8217;m not rubbing shoulders with the suited leaders but I am in control of how I think and view things, I&#8217;ll take that as enough to be getting on with. [&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-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}