{"id":176976,"date":"2024-03-31T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176976"},"modified":"2024-03-31T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:52:41","slug":"lonely-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/31\/lonely-mostly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Mostly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-beige-background-color has-background\">Sometimes it just gets to you. Today it has. I feel cut off from everything that I don&#8217;t experience though the medium of a  screen. Its difficult. I can see why people turn to drink I think.Its very quiet here. The usual tricks are not working at all. Its very quiet here.  I should be Ok as I have stuff going on and new musical buddies and a few musical positives have happened. So I should be on an up at present, but I am not at all. The evenings are getting lighter but my mood is getting darker.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\"><strong>Here&#8217;s an instrumental from August  2023  for you.<\/strong><br><br><em><strong>Driving Home To See You Again<\/strong><\/em><\/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\/1575228835&#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; 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Today it has. I feel cut off from everything that I don&#8217;t experience though the medium of a screen. Its difficult. I can see why people turn to drink I think.Its very quiet here. The usual tricks are not working at all. Its very quiet here. I should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/31\/lonely-mostly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lonely Mostly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":415,"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":[20,10,60,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-other","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSCF0113.JPG?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K2s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":910,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/11\/18\/a-quiet-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":176976,"position":0},"title":"A quiet week","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been involved with a lot of non-musical stuff this week, various website projects and fixing stuff. 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