{"id":1440,"date":"2012-10-29T21:44:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2012-10-29T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:44:43","slug":"a-world-i-no-longer-recognise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/10\/29\/a-world-i-no-longer-recognise\/","title":{"rendered":"A world I no longer recognise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just the fact that I am getting older and perhaps more set in my ways, but I feel that my values are very much at odds with the way a lot of people think now. There seems to me to be so much greed and envy and a blame culture where many people are perceived as either disposal or not worthy. Also where everything must be reduced to its value in cash and little else. Its a world that I don&#8217;t feel too much connection with or understand.<\/p>\n<p>My instinct is to withdraw into my shell and stay there. I don&#8217;t feel connected to anything now. Its made me feel low in a way that I have not experienced before. I am not sure if its the ebb and flow of depression.<br \/>\nIs this maybe just the getting of wisdom or a final letting go of something.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect I am not the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just the fact that I am getting older and perhaps more set in my ways, but I feel that my values are very much at odds with the way a lot of people think now. There seems to me to be so much greed and envy and a blame culture where many people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/10\/29\/a-world-i-no-longer-recognise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A world I no longer recognise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","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-ne","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131471,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/11\/09\/everybody-sells-out-eventually\/","url_meta":{"origin":1440,"position":0},"title":"Everybody sells out eventually","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Well they do don't they? 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