{"id":175646,"date":"2023-01-05T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175646"},"modified":"2023-01-05T19:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:14:57","slug":"new-years-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/01\/05\/new-years-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New  Years Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very quiet day, I was out briefly today locally. A typical grey winters day, with one or two people strolling around.  I have now opened TikTok account to help publicise music. Apparently this quite useful. I have uploaded some videos and had a few views already which is surprising. Maybe I can push a bit more traffic towards my other music online. Fingers crossed.<br>Here&#8217;s a fine old rackety song from me.  <br>    <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1200355798&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\"><\/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\/cant-cheat-fate\" title=\"Cant Cheat Fate\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Cant Cheat Fate<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I just read on twitter so it must be true &#8220;Alien invasion on march 23&#8221; only 8000 people will be saved. Still mustn&#8217;t grumble&#8230;.<br><br>Some people have asked me why on solo projects I  record I  nearly always play all the instruments?<br> a) Because I can <br>b) because I could never get anyone reliable enough to work  with.<br>So I got into the habit I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"175650\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/01\/05\/new-years-day-2023\/20180403_152952\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?fit=1440%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-J320FN&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1522769392&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00083056478405316&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20180403_152952\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-576x1024.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?resize=864%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20180403_152952-scaled.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very quiet day, I was out briefly today locally. A typical grey winters day, with one or two people strolling around. I have now opened TikTok account to help publicise music. Apparently this quite useful. I have uploaded some videos and had a few views already which is surprising. Maybe I can push a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/01\/05\/new-years-day-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New  Years Day 2023<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175646","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-JH0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178472,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/29\/popular-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":175646,"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":175465,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/08\/31\/funky-jazzy-music-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":175646,"position":1},"title":"Funky Jazzy Music Time","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Funky Jazzy Music. 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