{"id":312,"date":"2014-06-16T09:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2014-06-16T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:41:04","slug":"if-you-can-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"If you can imagine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the track to desired outcomes and futures, does that make them more likely to come your way? I might see myself in different habitats and settings dozens of times through every day, but the abiding, dominant feeling in my own writing life is that not much changes. I don&#8217;t lounge in Malibu ocean-front villas with each day dawning as a fresh nibble at everything planet Earth has to offer. I buy a loaf. I pay a cheque in (now and again). I chat with the bookshop owner about how many of his own title he&#8217;s sold this week, never more than five or six, but at least he&#8217;s selling. I try to work and breathe life into things, most stumble and fall. I understand the allure of grass-is-greener gazing &#8211; other places, other faces &#8211; but I don&#8217;t want to swap the keel and beam of my present life. If I could smash things and start again, I wouldn&#8217;t. Here I am trapped in the puzzle, more than content to examine its intricacies, close turnings and mirrored walls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tree.jpg\" alt=\"tree\" width=\"454\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tree.jpg 454w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tree-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the track to desired outcomes and futures, does that make them more likely to come your way? I might see myself in different habitats and settings dozens of times through every day, but the abiding, dominant feeling in my own writing life is that not much changes. I don&#8217;t lounge in Malibu ocean-front villas with [&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-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}