{"id":175559,"date":"2022-11-04T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175559"},"modified":"2022-11-04T18:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:03:48","slug":"prelude-to-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/11\/04\/prelude-to-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude To Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s starting to  get cold now. Ouch. Life goes on with a few hiccups along the path.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">There is plenty going on on various musical fronts, so that&#8217;s all good. I am in 4 different acts, all very different, which hopefully get busier next year. A slight hiatus though, due to the guitar player in one band fracturing a finger and the drummer twisting their wrist and no they were not having a fight. \u00a0In my folk act the guitar player has got a kidney infection. But overall I have a lot more going on now than I did a few months back creatively so that&#8217;s good. Other than that its business as usual over all. Finances are a bit iffy till next year so I am mostly doing stuff that does not cost too much to do socially. That&#8217;s OK though. <\/p>\n\n\n<h3>So here is a tune.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1375821169&amp;color=%23d0346c&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\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" 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;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"November Remembered\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/november-remembered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November Remembered<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a Piano and Keys thing, that sort of wrote it self the other week as they often do, whilst I was thinking about something completely different.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"521\" data-attachment-id=\"175561\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/11\/04\/prelude-to-winter\/blimey\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2209&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2209\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blimey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?fit=604%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-1024x883.jpg?resize=604%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175561 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C883&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C663&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1325&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1767&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blimey-scaled.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-beige-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">A memory from a few years back. No special reason for putting it here except it&#8217;s a fun picture with happy smiling  people in it. We all need to do  more smiling don&#8217;t you think.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s starting to get cold now. Ouch. Life goes on with a few hiccups along the path. There is plenty going on on various musical fronts, so that&#8217;s all good. I am in 4 different acts, all very different, which hopefully get busier next year. A slight hiatus though, due to the guitar player in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/11\/04\/prelude-to-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prelude To Winter<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[20,10,60,4,3,35,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-piano","category-piano-works","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JFB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178229,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/08\/the-plot-thickens\/","url_meta":{"origin":175559,"position":0},"title":"The Plot Thickens","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 8, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Much like gravy perhaps. 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