{"id":176771,"date":"2024-03-01T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176771"},"modified":"2024-03-01T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:00:40","slug":"not-so-happy-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/01\/not-so-happy-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Happy Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-beige-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Ouch, I have had some unexpected emergency dental work done.  I feel like I have been in a fight. Ouch again. Teeth are sneaky, you think they are fine then suddenly and randomly something happens.  Out of nowhere. So I am feeling a bit sorry for myself as in bruised and battered  but pleased that I managed to get treatment quickly.  It&#8217;s been a rough day though.<br>It seems harder to get over these things as time goes by. I also got soaked on the way to the appointment as well so other aches and pains as well. <\/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\/1479792535&#038;color=%23bd6f3c&#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\/older-so-it-seems\" title=\"Older So It Seems\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Older So It Seems<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">So no creative stuff today really. 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I feel like I have been in a fight. Ouch again. Teeth are sneaky, you think they are fine then suddenly and randomly something happens. Out of nowhere. So I am feeling a bit sorry for myself as in bruised and battered but pleased that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/01\/not-so-happy-fridays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not So Happy Fridays<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84048,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,10,60,7,4,3,17,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-pictures","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WP_20160326_23_43_38_Pro.jpg?fit=2592%2C1456&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JZ9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178773,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/12\/ouch-diy-is-dangerous\/","url_meta":{"origin":176771,"position":0},"title":"Ouch DIY is Dangerous","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I had an accident doing some DIY today. 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