{"id":2371,"date":"2022-01-24T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2022-01-24T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T17:31:03","slug":"i-still-make-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"I still make marks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drag the ink. It&#8217;s all drawing now, the digital click has set that straight. It takes an hour or two for me to draw a letter, complete with messy sketches and figures I&#8217;ve known since school days torpor. When stamps were cheap each week I&#8217;d send a few postcards with etched lines and outbursts but missives feel more of an investment now, I&#8217;m careful not to mess them up and swerve the costly scrunch. The content is largely unchanged. I scuttlebutt, riff and rant much the same as I did when I was fifteen years in but I&#8217;m not as sharp now and the connections take longer to pan from the memories. As long as I can find the grains and a voice I&#8217;ll keep scribbling the notes to my bewildered and scattered compadres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220124_0901033532-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2372\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220124_0901033532-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220124_0901033532-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220124_0901033532-1-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drag the ink. It&#8217;s all drawing now, the digital click has set that straight. It takes an hour or two for me to draw a letter, complete with messy sketches and figures I&#8217;ve known since school days torpor. When stamps were cheap each week I&#8217;d send a few postcards with etched lines and outbursts [&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-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","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=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}