{"id":285,"date":"2014-06-08T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2014-06-09T21:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:39:59","slug":"there-is-so-much-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"There is so much beauty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand why some might posit a universal design. Why daffodils? Why sand patterns after the tide? Why dragonflies as blue as the June canopy, skimming the grass between my steps? But I&#8217;ve seen beauty staring back at me from broken-down bus windows and supermarket queues, scattered in slums and salons and fetid street corners, beauty beyond any guessing or rule. It&#8217;s an accident of alignments, angles and tones &#8211; and most striking when it appears with no warning or link to its surroundings. Beauty doesn&#8217;t feel part of any cosmos blueprint, it&#8217;s a supernal trespasser at the commoners&#8217; ball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sky.jpg\" alt=\"sky\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sky.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sky-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand why some might posit a universal design. Why daffodils? Why sand patterns after the tide? Why dragonflies as blue as the June canopy, skimming the grass between my steps? But I&#8217;ve seen beauty staring back at me from broken-down bus windows and supermarket queues, scattered in slums and salons and fetid street corners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}