{"id":2607,"date":"2024-08-08T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:34:39","slug":"two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"Two wheels&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>carry me out to the distant shores of the town, I&#8217;m riding seven or eight miles a day now. It&#8217;s good for the little chunk of planet air I was polutting, good for my torso. Had to be done, I fear the slide to podgery and Type 2 and I want to swerve the ring road traffic, the town is clogging as they pack more three-beds and flats into the gaps between the carriageways and petrol stations, tarmac over the golf course and the farmers&#8217; fields. It&#8217;s only going one way. Off the roads I find tracks and hedge gaps, hidden routes for bikes and walkers. This environment was all set out long before I came along, I&#8217;m living in an old design, the new design always nibbling away at it. I begin to crave the clear spot in the sun, the stone house on the headland and bees in the wild thyme but how will I ever give Albion and the threat of podgery the slip? What engine can I make to splutter and fire and beat a pulse again?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bridge-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2608\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bridge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bridge-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bridge-1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>carry me out to the distant shores of the town, I&#8217;m riding seven or eight miles a day now. It&#8217;s good for the little chunk of planet air I was polutting, good for my torso. Had to be done, I fear the slide to podgery and Type 2 and I want to swerve the ring [&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-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","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=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}