{"id":117453,"date":"2018-05-17T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=117453"},"modified":"2018-05-17T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:11:00","slug":"sanity-is-it-over-rated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/05\/17\/sanity-is-it-over-rated\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity, is it over rated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it is. Times are challenging at present. Surrealists to the left of us, surrealists to the right of us.\u00a0 Life, who would have thought it? At the moment it seems there is nobody that I can actually have a reasonable conversation with, and it’s getting me down.\u00a0 My tolerance of stupidity has dropped to zero now.\u00a0 Its gives me a feeling of extreme isolation like being the last person in the building that has to turn the lights out and lock the door.<\/p>\n

I should have everything I need now in terms of the mundane domestic stuff. A comfortable\u00a0 place to live and my material needs all satisfied. All taken care of now.\u00a0 So whats up? Don’t have a clue… perhaps its that moment when you look in the mirror and truly see yourself as you are, and think oh shit is that really me?<\/p>\n

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Perhaps it is. Times are challenging at present. Surrealists to the left of us, surrealists to the right of us.\u00a0 Life, who would have thought it? At the moment it seems there is nobody that I can actually have a reasonable conversation with, and it’s getting me down.\u00a0 My tolerance of stupidity has dropped to … Continue reading Sanity, is it over rated?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-uyp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175637,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/12\/25\/christmas-day-at-the-workhouse\/","url_meta":{"origin":117453,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Day At The Workhouse","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"December the 25th again. 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