{"id":386,"date":"2014-07-23T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2014-07-27T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T17:48:08","slug":"i-didnt-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t get it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>with punts until last summer, couldn&#8217;t get around the mockery impulse. But a year back I had to race to an upriver rendezvous at the Victoria Arms and while zigzagging the bends, ducking under willows and kicking away at the bank snags, I finally got it. It wasn&#8217;t Wordsworth out on the lake but in the unthinking dash I had my flash of punting serenity, the infinite drip of the green-mirrored water slab made sense to me. Now, when it gets over 25C, I just want to be out on the water. Or mooring up at the beer garden. Flat water has a rightness about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/punt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-387 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/punt.jpg\" alt=\"punt\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/punt.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/punt-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with punts until last summer, couldn&#8217;t get around the mockery impulse. But a year back I had to race to an upriver rendezvous at the Victoria Arms and while zigzagging the bends, ducking under willows and kicking away at the bank snags, I finally got it. It wasn&#8217;t Wordsworth out on the lake but in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}