{"id":175200,"date":"2022-01-09T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175200"},"modified":"2022-01-09T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:49:10","slug":"january-2022-what-does-it-mean-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/01\/09\/january-2022-what-does-it-mean-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2022, What does it mean to you?"},"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=\"\">A new year. New things in the works as well. Some beginnings and the odd green shoot breaking through the crack in the pavement.<br \/>\nI am a bit knackered generally speaking at present. I have made some new music connections and I do hope they will grow survive the frost.<br \/>\nIts been a long time since I tried anything really new.&nbsp; Lots of thoughts racing around my head that are not too much to do with anything but are quite distracting and even disturbing at times.&nbsp; I do wonder how people manage to filter out the distractions as I find with time passing I am more and more easily drawn off course than I ever was before.&nbsp; Also my ability&nbsp; to stay focused and enthusiastic for any length of time seems long gone. I am fine when I am working with others&nbsp; in the main, but alone its now a real battle. Is it simply a a lack of novelty or something more than that? The first song I recorded this year is different as the lyrics were provided by a friend. Its been a long time since i did that sort of collaboration.&nbsp; It seems to have worked out OK though as a few people have played it already and shared it. Its a relatively simple tune and was an experiment which seems to have succeeded. So perhaps a few more collaborative efforts&nbsp; could be in the pipe line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1192741075&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" 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=\"Circus Street\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/circus-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circus Street<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">\nOne thing that is much the same is how quiet it is here. The whole worlds asleep after sundown it seems at this time of year in this place. Sitting in music room typing I am almost drifting off to sleep as well.&nbsp; The trees though already have hints of what will become with&nbsp; buds showing and other hints of life. One thing that being a city dweller for so many years that I did not really appreciate is how much green there is even in the depths of winter. Its not really bleak at all and I worried that it might be. I am a passive observer of the countryside in the main but do appreciate it.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year. New things in the works as well. Some beginnings and the odd green shoot breaking through the crack in the pavement. I am a bit knackered generally speaking at present. I have made some new music connections and I do hope they will grow survive the frost. Its been a long time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/01\/09\/january-2022-what-does-it-mean-to-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 2022, What does it mean to you?<\/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":[10,60,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-other","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JzO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":120749,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/06\/18\/i-may-have-finally-run-out-of-anything-worthwhile-to-say\/","url_meta":{"origin":175200,"position":0},"title":"I may have finally run out of anything worthwhile to say","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I have moved out of London I feel as if I am almost in a different country. 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