{"id":175793,"date":"2023-05-08T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175793"},"modified":"2023-05-08T21:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:19:56","slug":"mythical-shirelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/05\/08\/mythical-shirelands\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythical Shirelands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">England&#8217;s dreaming. Yes, bits of it certainly are, it must be said. I think I saw it today. There is a lot of very pleasant countryside to see here. Its all looking a bit disneyland olde England in the sunshine today. Appropriate I suppose as the king has got his hat on now. I had a brief trip out to to a local village (Felmersham) as I was suffering from cabin fever somewhat. I love visiting churches, I think it&#8217;s because I need redemption it helped a little, but as I write this the gloom has set in again. For the last few years we have had bright and very warm springs but this years been a slow starter all round.  And whilst I have been busy things have not quite gelled as i would have hoped. Various band projects are progressing slowly at least.  Perhaps a bit too slowly though for me. writing my thoughts down helps me keep perspective on it all though at least.<br><br>An unusual happenstance to get a track played several times in Vietnam as it is not a place people listen to my stuff a lot. Japan and Korea yes.  But hey its progress I guess. My stuff is played world-wide as its distributed on over 35 different streaming platforms including chinese ones, but sadly not played enough&#8230;. Getting played in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi today is a novelty though. When I was a child those names were associated with newsreel footage  of bombing on the TV news..  <br><br>As I write it&#8217;s the end of the coronation weekend at present and a dull day in every regard. It&#8217;s raining outside and it&#8217;s raining in my head too.  <br>So here is the song for you. <br> <\/p>\n\n\n<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\/1508132221&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\"><\/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\/i-can-only-still-see-you-in-pictures\" title=\"I Can Only Still See You In Pictures\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">I Can Only Still See You In Pictures<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s dreaming. Yes, bits of it certainly are, it must be said. I think I saw it today. There is a lot of very pleasant countryside to see here. Its all looking a bit disneyland olde England in the sunshine today. Appropriate I suppose as the king has got his hat on now. I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/05\/08\/mythical-shirelands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mythical Shirelands<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175793","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-JJn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":176924,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/21\/up-hill-slowly\/","url_meta":{"origin":175793,"position":0},"title":"Up Hill Slowly","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, it's hard work. 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