{"id":810,"date":"2015-05-28T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T08:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2015-05-28T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:09:59","slug":"i-have-no-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"I have no garden&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>no spinning tuft of lawn under the sky. I&#8217;m up in the trees, with the vistas, head in the clouds. But I dream of getting down to earth again. I&#8217;d like just enough grass to lie out, star-shaped on the sod and feel the shoots of myself flash down through crust and mantle, crackle upwards into the airless elbow-room of the upper atmosphere. I want to feel the overseeing sun on my skin, immense and burning bright. I&#8217;d like an apple tree with blush fruit and a squat doorway that leads to nobody-knows and hidden walks and glades and all around that green calm. If I can get my garden I shall cultivate a sunflower, and watch it attend and turn, helio slave like all us living things. And I&#8217;ll let out a scream to the sky, a cheer to the molecules, an interstellar call of thanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-811 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/garden.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/garden.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/garden-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no spinning tuft of lawn under the sky. I&#8217;m up in the trees, with the vistas, head in the clouds. But I dream of getting down to earth again. I&#8217;d like just enough grass to lie out, star-shaped on the sod and feel the shoots of myself flash down through crust and mantle, crackle upwards [&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-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}