{"id":1508,"date":"2013-04-12T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2013-04-12T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T11:03:25","slug":"looking-back-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2013\/04\/12\/looking-back-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has not been the best day for me, I have feeling quite low and also suffering from some ongoing aches and pains related to a problem that started over a year ago. I have been thinking back over what I have done with most of my adult life and trying to reconcile the fact that I did miss the boat in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>With Mrs T&#8217;s passing, its a bit like a sign post as many people seem to have very selective memory&#8217;s of that period, and its made me take a bit of wander down memory lane. The Brixton riots being a particularly vivid memory for me for example. Time seems to have flashed by, I seem to have been on this forum for ever too.<\/p>\n<p>Some people gained and some lost a lot.<br \/>\nI suspect that there could well have been a better way to make change happen. To describe some sections of society as the enemy is hardly the way to have anything other than a divided Britain and the same style of rhetoric is in use today. So enough with the scapegoating its really not helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has not been the best day for me, I have feeling quite low and also suffering from some ongoing aches and pains related to a problem that started over a year ago. I have been thinking back over what I have done with most of my adult life and trying to reconcile the fact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2013\/04\/12\/looking-back-and-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking back and stuff<\/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":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-ok","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1369,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/06\/06\/still-not-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":1508,"position":0},"title":"Still not right","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I had been feeling a bit healthier for a couple of months, but seem to have lapsed back somewhat. 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