{"id":2465,"date":"2023-01-23T18:16:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:18:12","slug":"they-want-to-close-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"They want to close the roads&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>linking the quadrants around the peninsula where I live. You know them when you wander out there away from the houses, the long misty stretch where the fields flood, the 4am ring-road drag track for bikers and their lonely howls, the asphalt lanes and dimpled barriers and litter caught in the bare trees. I feel like I know them too well, these tin can arteries, speeding out on my messages. I&#8217;d like the council to go further, ban cars from the whole city, force us onto the bikes. Then I can work on my squall grimace, teeth clamped, eyes a-fire like Ahab&#8217;s as I peddle out for a croissant and a cup of joe. But a little part of me will miss the screen out onto the highway, the lines sliding into the fog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230121_132409067.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2466\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230121_132409067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230121_132409067.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230121_132409067-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>linking the quadrants around the peninsula where I live. You know them when you wander out there away from the houses, the long misty stretch where the fields flood, the 4am ring-road drag track for bikers and their lonely howls, the asphalt lanes and dimpled barriers and litter caught in the bare trees. I feel [&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-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}