{"id":176212,"date":"2023-12-04T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176212"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:56:23","slug":"why-does-it-have-to-be-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/04\/why-does-it-have-to-be-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does It Have To Be Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, why indeed?  Its easy to get complacent don&#8217;t you think. You imagine that you are on top of it all and then you&#8217;re not. You expect people to be reasonable, but no. A recent example of that has occurred which has caused me some stress.<br>My most recent song mixed just before writing this post.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1681835460&amp;color=%23e49864&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&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;\"><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=\"You Wear Me Down Like Like Disease\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/you-wear-me-down-like-like-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Wear Me Down Like Like Disease<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well there we go. Some people are just little shits and there is nothing you can do about it. But they just continue to get away with it.<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, why indeed? Its easy to get complacent don&#8217;t you think. You imagine that you are on top of it all and then you&#8217;re not. You expect people to be reasonable, but no. A recent example of that has occurred which has caused me some stress.My most recent song mixed just before writing this post. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/04\/why-does-it-have-to-be-difficult\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Does It Have To Be Difficult<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176212","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-JQ8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":177682,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/07\/20\/a-little-further-on-down-the-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":176212,"position":0},"title":"A little further on down the road","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"We have to keep trying, though I am not sure why a lot of the time. 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