{"id":2315,"date":"2021-07-16T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:52:09","slug":"the-cat-cools-off-on-the-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"The cat cools off on the oak&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he knows the heat&#8217;s coming. He&#8217;s been out chasing butterflies while I flail and fail over the lines. The words have been sticking lately, I waste hours daydreaming about boats and skimming the blue. I watch the old action flicks, <em>Cold Sweat<\/em> and <em>The Last Ride<\/em>, washed-up crims running yacht tours and caning it around the corniches. I wonder if I&#8217;d love it or hate it, fishing in the bays between the gaps of boat chores, repayments and routines. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been landlocked so long, my sea fever, and the world feeling more bound up in rules and restrictions than I can ever remember, with the dread of another winter lockdown nagging at me. I could take the skimmer out to St Kilda, camp out for a few nights. Across to the pink granite isle. Or are we always worrying about one last job, the big payback, the easy money that never comes. The cat&#8217;s got the smarts, he knows not to waste his time future-gazing when he could curl up and snooze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PXL_20210716_112849731-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2316\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PXL_20210716_112849731-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PXL_20210716_112849731-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PXL_20210716_112849731-1-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he knows the heat&#8217;s coming. He&#8217;s been out chasing butterflies while I flail and fail over the lines. The words have been sticking lately, I waste hours daydreaming about boats and skimming the blue. I watch the old action flicks, Cold Sweat and The Last Ride, washed-up crims running yacht tours and caning it around [&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-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","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=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}