{"id":2460,"date":"2023-01-13T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:12:25","slug":"water-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"Water up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>with the New Year storms that punch at the glass and wobble the zinc panels ten feet over my pillow. Been reading Robert Stone, bottles of Lucky lager in grid-street desert towns. &#8220;The mind is a monkey,&#8221; says Hicks, one of the players, steeling himself for a decision. Just go, do and live with the consequences. I&#8217;m not so sure, things don&#8217;t turn out well for Hicks. I mull on departures driving down to the shop in my trundler hatchback. I&#8217;m anchored in these roads and routines it feels but I know it can all change in a second, there are things I want to see. For six months or more I&#8217;ve been reading and dreaming on Daedalus and how he borrowed from nature to emulate the gods. I want to wade into the sea off Knossos and bob about under the higher realm, studying the cliffs for the opening to the Labyrinth. And I want to get back to Amsterdam, to pay my respects. And there are a dozen other planet pilgrimages and yearnings, they&#8217;re all open to me and on my mind, have been for years. I only need to earn the passage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230110_084737430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2461\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230110_084737430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230110_084737430.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230110_084737430-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with the New Year storms that punch at the glass and wobble the zinc panels ten feet over my pillow. Been reading Robert Stone, bottles of Lucky lager in grid-street desert towns. &#8220;The mind is a monkey,&#8221; says Hicks, one of the players, steeling himself for a decision. Just go, do and live with the [&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-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}