{"id":176239,"date":"2023-12-10T22:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176239"},"modified":"2023-12-10T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:05:24","slug":"hitting-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/10\/hitting-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After an OK week, I had a bit of a slump today though  and missed out on a musical opportunity, that I was looking forward to but my head was not in the right place at all. Its frustrating but these things happen from time to time and one should follow ones instincts as its often in the long term the  safest thing for maintaining  friendships in the longer term.  I am re-recording an old song I wrote in 1996. I think I might have actually nailed it this time (fingers and toes crossed) though.  So I shall present it here, written in 1996.<br>A Piano and vocal ballad. &#8220;Thinking Of Writing You A Letter&#8221;<\/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\/1687181175&#038;color=%23e49864&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;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\/thinking-of-writing-you-a-letter\" title=\"Thinking Of Writing You A Letter\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Thinking Of Writing You A Letter<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its been a struggle today though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an OK week, I had a bit of a slump today though and missed out on a musical opportunity, that I was looking forward to but my head was not in the right place at all. Its frustrating but these things happen from time to time and one should follow ones instincts as its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/10\/hitting-the-wall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hitting The Wall<\/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-176239","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-JQz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175355,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/05\/30\/a-recent-recording-of-a-song-i-wrote-in-the-90s\/","url_meta":{"origin":176239,"position":0},"title":"A recent recording of a song I wrote in the 90s","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a song, \"Under the Skin\" I wrote a few years ago around 1996. 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