{"id":597,"date":"2015-01-06T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T12:47:54","slug":"gold-is-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Gold is the sun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and only eight light minutes away. Hard and heavy as that Kruggerand chip I examined in a Leicester Square coin shop, back in my twenties. I had a plan to buy one per quarter, a stash for the zombie apocalypse of middle age. Another plan that passed in the night murk, a mile or two off my bow. And twenty years before that, in my grandfather&#8217;s workshop I held a pebble of gold in my gangrel fist, a first clutch at the sun metal. And the light in my eyes was already thousands of years old, the long struggle to escape the great star&#8217;s gravity tug and then the eight minute dash across the void. Pebble, Kruggerand, Buckingham sun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-598 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sun.jpg\" alt=\"sun\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sun.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sun-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and only eight light minutes away. Hard and heavy as that Kruggerand chip I examined in a Leicester Square coin shop, back in my twenties. I had a plan to buy one per quarter, a stash for the zombie apocalypse of middle age. Another plan that passed in the night murk, a mile or two [&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-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}