{"id":2705,"date":"2025-09-12T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:57:13","slug":"smiling-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"Smiling strangers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on the lonely roads. By 8pm this city is going to bed and the foxes start to whisper between gardens. I&#8217;m back at the same corner at 2am after a run to the airport, under the moon wrapped in butter-yellow chrome clouds. Heading out I found a dancehall station to shake the car and just for a moment I remembered that feeling of leaving for the gig, the night-worker life, playing in the band. Dispossessed misfit but happy in my bones. Now this is where I land, that path through the Taiga has led me here. But how? The fox gives no answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fox-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2706\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fox-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fox-1.jpg 551w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fox-1-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the lonely roads. By 8pm this city is going to bed and the foxes start to whisper between gardens. I&#8217;m back at the same corner at 2am after a run to the airport, under the moon wrapped in butter-yellow chrome clouds. Heading out I found a dancehall station to shake the car and just [&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-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","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=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}