{"id":174861,"date":"2021-03-10T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=174861"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:59:26","slug":"they-call-it-wet-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/03\/10\/they-call-it-wet-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"They call it Wet Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>Yep. It certainly is. Its now one week since\u00a0 I had my first Oxford AstraZeneca covid jab.\u00a0 Apart from that there is very little to report.\u00a0 One new tune despatched to the interwebs. I am not really following the Harry and Megan show with any great interest though much of the rest of the world seems quite obsessed with it at present. The monarchy in the UK is really past its sell by date frankly and it has done itself no favours recently.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying hard to keep on with keeping on as much as possible, but its still a good 3 weeks before we can start meeting people outside (by which time I should actually\u00a0 have a reasonable level of immunity)\u00a0 in the UK and about 12 weeks until we can hopefully have people meeting up in doors. So auditioning potential musical collaborators is pretty much a no go at the date of writing.\u00a0 Doing nothing though is a tad discouraging though. Also I need to make sure that its clear to any potential collaborators that they need to be local to me.\u00a0 \u00a0That caused a bit of an issue the last time in practical terms and was not really workable even with masses of good will and best intentions.\u00a0 A serious strategic approach is needed this time I think.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the last musical outpouring of mine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1003309942&amp;color=%23de7543&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/time-you-were-working\" title=\"Time You Were Working\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Time You Were Working<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. It certainly is. Its now one week since\u00a0 I had my first Oxford AstraZeneca covid jab.\u00a0 Apart from that there is very little to report.\u00a0 One new tune despatched to the interwebs. I am not really following the Harry and Megan show with any great interest though much of the rest of the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/03\/10\/they-call-it-wet-wednesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They call it Wet Wednesday<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174861","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-Jul","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5673,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/09\/09\/david-clapsons-awful-death-was-the-result-of-grotesque-government-policies\/","url_meta":{"origin":174861,"position":0},"title":"David Clapson\u2019s awful death was the result of grotesque government policies","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The DWP brags about ending the \u2018something for nothing\u2019 culture, but benefit sanctions punish the unemployed, disabled and poor in ways that are utterly inhumane","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Powered by Guardian.co.uk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardianBLACK.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":175031,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/11\/struck-philosophical-almost\/","url_meta":{"origin":174861,"position":1},"title":"Struck Philosophical Almost","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 11, 2021","format":"aside","excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Take A Chance 2121 \u00a0 \u00a0 I was struck philosophical this morning. 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