{"id":823,"date":"2015-06-25T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:24:20","slug":"a-bough-snapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"A bough snapped&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by the Tintin house. Shuttered windows, louche sports car on the gravel and callers at strange hours. Did our reporter scale the wall with Snowy a-sniff the funny-money ink, ears a-twitch those clanking sounds from the basement? Was the gang boss necromancer consulting with his brazen head in the library, saw a vision of our sleuth in the grounds and set loose the house gorilla? In the chase, the good duo tip-toed along the bough, luring the ape forwards and with its bound the bark tore and the beast lay stunned on the pavement. Was that Calculus ghost-peering from the back window of a departing car? And where&#8217;s the captain, but rabble-rousing down The Anchor with assorted North Oxford salts and stowaways. Books endure, symbols and story remnants to pollinate these ride-by dreams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-824 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tree.jpg\" alt=\"tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tree.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tree-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by the Tintin house. Shuttered windows, louche sports car on the gravel and callers at strange hours. Did our reporter scale the wall with Snowy a-sniff the funny-money ink, ears a-twitch those clanking sounds from the basement? Was the gang boss necromancer consulting with his brazen head in the library, saw a vision of our [&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-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}