{"id":175948,"date":"2023-08-10T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175948"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:18:09","slug":"august-updates-and-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/08\/10\/august-updates-and-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"August updates and musings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, there is not much to say really. My muse seems to have temporally departed me, or perhaps its just having a summer break. It is lawn mowing time again on the estate and very noisy it is here too. Just as well I am not in the middle of recording some meaningful opus perhaps. So here is an old one to fill the gap.<\/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\/192665208&#038;color=%23d0346c&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;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\/its-my-song-1\" title=\"Its My Song\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Its My Song<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" data-attachment-id=\"175951\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/08\/10\/august-updates-and-musings\/20230721_155620\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1689954980&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20230721_155620\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?fit=604%2C805&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-768x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C805&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Diana Stone at the Piano in rehearsal at Stevenage\" class=\"wp-image-175951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230721_155620-scaled.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there is not much to say really. My muse seems to have temporally departed me, or perhaps its just having a summer break. It is lawn mowing time again on the estate and very noisy it is here too. Just as well I am not in the middle of recording some meaningful opus perhaps. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/08\/10\/august-updates-and-musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August updates and musings<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175948","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-JLS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":176232,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/04\/one-day-perhaps\/","url_meta":{"origin":175948,"position":0},"title":"One Day Perhaps","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dove.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dove.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/dove.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175366,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/06\/09\/june-musings-or-thereabouts\/","url_meta":{"origin":175948,"position":1},"title":"June Musings or Thereabouts","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Paying it forward. I was thinking about this today. Does it ever work? It mighty be worthy, it might even\u00a0 make you feel better about yourself but I cant say that as far as I am aware personally anything ever comes back in my direction. Maybe I have had my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bi-polar&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bi-polar","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/bipolar\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34552,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/03\/01\/new-song-comfort-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":175948,"position":2},"title":"Comfort now","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A new slightly folky proggy type tune from me. It's a little bit of your old pastoral wistfulness in preparation for the for the first day of Spring on March 20th. 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