{"id":2722,"date":"2026-01-02T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:13:39","slug":"more-hours-with-the-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"More hours with the pages&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>after the solstice, in part because of the long nights and pre-twilight wakeups, in part thanks to the booktokens I&#8217;m lucky enough to receive as No\u00ebl gifts but in main to combat an unbearable sense of ignorance and that old friend, impending doom. Maybe by reading I can figure out a strategy for the year to come. So I read to get a glimpse of what other people are thinking and doing and how they face the struggle to find a path through the woods. Books are sparks in the gloom, beacon fires on the high hills, survival guides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260101_155132454-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2723\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260101_155132454-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260101_155132454-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260101_155132454-2-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after the solstice, in part because of the long nights and pre-twilight wakeups, in part thanks to the booktokens I&#8217;m lucky enough to receive as No\u00ebl gifts but in main to combat an unbearable sense of ignorance and that old friend, impending doom. Maybe by reading I can figure out a strategy for the year [&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-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}