{"id":2669,"date":"2025-05-31T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2025-05-31T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:29:48","slug":"my-rain-kissed-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"My rain-kissed corner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>of this world has been dry for weeks, other than a couple of small-hour thunderstorms. The bike tracks along the river are all flint and baked earth. And I can watch white clumps of seeds and fluff drifting off the trees in the garden of the Medley bar, hazarding my beer. We&#8217;ve been walking out to the villages. Last week I forded the Cherwell, water and reeds high over my knees, feeling my way through the silt and stones with bare toes. Two swans watched me cross from a pool upriver. Life&#8217;s for living, and fording rivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/meadow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/meadow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/meadow-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/meadow-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of this world has been dry for weeks, other than a couple of small-hour thunderstorms. The bike tracks along the river are all flint and baked earth. And I can watch white clumps of seeds and fluff drifting off the trees in the garden of the Medley bar, hazarding my beer. We&#8217;ve been walking out [&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-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","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=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}