{"id":251,"date":"2014-06-03T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2014-06-05T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:12:11","slug":"the-web-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"The web promises&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so much, but gives back little for the hours it steals. It&#8217;s too hard to ignore the commerce and schlock, the maneuvers and machinations of the merchants that fund it all. Cars and homes and holidays aren&#8217;t worth a lifetime&#8217;s questing, if even a moment. Browsing is time in coma, a dereliction of duty to self, picking crumbs from other men&#8217;s tables. None of it, not one page or post or line can match a few seconds walking around the island garden or daydream-wandering by a train window. Those journeys lead to insights and discoveries from your own thoughts, alone and untainted. Sweet physical world. And sweeter vistas of the unshackled mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so much, but gives back little for the hours it steals. It&#8217;s too hard to ignore the commerce and schlock, the maneuvers and machinations of the merchants that fund it all. Cars and homes and holidays aren&#8217;t worth a lifetime&#8217;s questing, if even a moment. Browsing is time in coma, a dereliction of duty to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}