{"id":2519,"date":"2023-09-13T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:22:35","slug":"september-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Summer almost gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and my September ghosts are back, hiding in the morning mist. I blink in the 7am glow, hear the geese phalanx flyby honk, dreams still tugging until I kick my legs out from the slab and journey to the coffee machine. Flicker and pulse as I grind the beans, dredging at the books I&#8217;ve been reading as autumn rolls in, Lancaster raiders booming through the night to Hamburg, Iris visiting Sleep in his drowsy cave at the edge of the world on a mission for Hera, Thompson and his bikers riding out through the Sausalito fog. Books are my only travel pass now, while I scrape for funds. Books to insulate me from my cares. But there&#8217;s that old snap in the air after a last blast of weird heat, and soon there will be frost and the geese will move on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230822_175521522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2520\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230822_175521522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230822_175521522.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230822_175521522-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and my September ghosts are back, hiding in the morning mist. I blink in the 7am glow, hear the geese phalanx flyby honk, dreams still tugging until I kick my legs out from the slab and journey to the coffee machine. Flicker and pulse as I grind the beans, dredging at the books I&#8217;ve been [&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-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}