{"id":2760,"date":"2026-06-23T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:39:06","slug":"hard-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Hard to sleep&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in my heat-swoon abulia, hard to bike the lanes this week, lift a shovel or marshal the words with the sun smiting. If I had a pool I&#8217;d be in it, or the sea shallows. Out there the rails are buckling and the cat has lost his zip. I flop at the study desk, not writing and musing on Dante and Lady Poverty in the age of data centres and biometric scans. One cup of water for every search, 17 seconds of lightbulb energy. How many searches do I tap out every day, flitting through the database? Knowledge comes at a cost to wonder and to the blue pearl&#8217;s resources but tech lashes us on with the promise that things can only get better, gently fingertip-turning our gaze from the vast sheds of lights and cables. It&#8217;s the belching smoke and grime of the Industrial Rev all over again, so many benefits, so much lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fire.bowl_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2761\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fire.bowl_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fire.bowl_.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fire.bowl_-300x272.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in my heat-swoon abulia, hard to bike the lanes this week, lift a shovel or marshal the words with the sun smiting. If I had a pool I&#8217;d be in it, or the sea shallows. Out there the rails are buckling and the cat has lost his zip. I flop at the study desk, not [&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-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}