{"id":2400,"date":"2022-05-19T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:38:21","slug":"if-you-want-to-build-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"If you want to build something&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>get on with it, the days are ticking by. All the talk is fear but there are new building sites across the town and we&#8217;re not even in recession yet. I bought a monthly comic today and the guy at the till double-checked the price, &#8220;in case it&#8217;s gone up.&#8221; Prices are frothing but he&#8217;s driving an Audi TT. Maybe the crunch is coming but it&#8217;s not here yet. It&#8217;s fear of how bad it&#8217;ll be next year that&#8217;s in the news, keeps people watching the tv hosts shouting, keeps us comparing bills. I feel slapped in the face with the economics. I&#8217;d rather be talking with a friend about the comic I got, or Lermontov and how he puts the character right before you in a sentence or two, or that silhouette of a black hole. But the business of living has the gravitational edge, it&#8217;s hard to snap free. Meanwhile the concrete is drying out on the tower and the workers will be in soon to fit out. I&#8217;ll walk down there in a few months and they&#8217;ll have finished. Time to get tapping at my own chapters, fashion my own spire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220515_113818991.MP2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2401\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220515_113818991.MP2_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220515_113818991.MP2_.jpg 521w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220515_113818991.MP2_-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>get on with it, the days are ticking by. All the talk is fear but there are new building sites across the town and we&#8217;re not even in recession yet. I bought a monthly comic today and the guy at the till double-checked the price, &#8220;in case it&#8217;s gone up.&#8221; Prices are frothing but he&#8217;s [&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-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}