{"id":175031,"date":"2021-07-11T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175031"},"modified":"2021-07-11T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T13:35:29","slug":"struck-philosophical-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/11\/struck-philosophical-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Struck Philosophical Almost"},"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 class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1071478291&amp;color=%234c5c84&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/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;\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Take A Chance 2121\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/take-a-chance-2121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take A Chance 2121<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I was struck philosophical this morning. I thought about my decisions over the last 20 years and on the whole I think they were the right ones. Givinging up the well paid Civil Service Job for full time music and meeting a lot of very interesting people and the fringe benefits was I think a good gamble and not doing that would have been a lot less enjoyable, though they were some bumpy times along the way. Also the fact that my father died at a relatively young age and so had 6 weeks of retirement also informed my decision. I am now just about the same age he was when he died. So for me in a weird way anything beyond this time feels like its a bonus. Also there is no doubt that I am getting more arthritic and regular gigging the way I used to seems unlikely again due to covid, finding co-conspirators mad enough to do it and the physical wear and tear. So doing it when I did seems logical. None of us could have foreseen the current crisis either. So to have got this far is not so bad considering where I started. If there are more fun and frolics to be had I won&#8217;t turn then down though.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Take A Chance 2121 &nbsp; &nbsp; I was struck philosophical this morning. I thought about my decisions over the last 20 years and on the whole I think they were the right ones. Givinging up the well paid Civil Service Job for full time music and meeting a lot of very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/11\/struck-philosophical-almost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Struck Philosophical Almost<\/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":"aside","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":[10,60,7,4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-music","category-musings","category-whatever","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Jx5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178472,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/29\/popular-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":175031,"position":0},"title":"Popular Music","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 The good Stuff This is a selection of recent recordings that seem to have been well received :)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cafe2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175289,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/03\/19\/space-cadets-are-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":175031,"position":1},"title":"Space cadets are go","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"So any excuse for a picture and any excuse for a tune too. that being said here is a trancy Violin and Synth moody tune for you. 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I just went for a brief walk and its grim out there. Brighter later maybe?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/278809576_331358159096727_2811131025119781550_n.jpg?fit=996%2C442&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/278809576_331358159096727_2811131025119781550_n.jpg?fit=996%2C442&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/278809576_331358159096727_2811131025119781550_n.jpg?fit=996%2C442&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/278809576_331358159096727_2811131025119781550_n.jpg?fit=996%2C442&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1115,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/09\/01\/dream-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":175031,"position":4},"title":"Dream 2","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Dream 2 An instrumental track from the first Glass Cage CD from 1998, when I got my first Korg work station keyboard. 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