{"id":177334,"date":"2024-05-18T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177334"},"modified":"2024-05-18T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:27:19","slug":"its-not-been-the-best-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/18\/its-not-been-the-best-week\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Been The Best Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">Some good news, we got our washing machine replaced. Apart from that not much. Also I finally tested negative for covid this afternoon, so that at least is a plus. But otherwise an annoying and somewhat difficult week, and I still feel crap. My voice is just about still here. Otherwise I am still very fatigued, which is I suppose to be expected though. <br><br>Below is a new tune for your listening pleasure.<\/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\/1823415804&#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\/shear-frustration\" title=\"Shear Frustration\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Shear Frustration<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">I posted a couple of songs on TikTok. It&#8217;s a weird place. People are starting to use my music there a bit too. It&#8217;s an interesting experiment though how useful it is who knows?  But usually all publicity is good publicity as they say. The comment&#8217;s  are very odd at times.  But hey that&#8217;s life.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"392\" data-attachment-id=\"177361\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/18\/its-not-been-the-best-week\/dsc00113\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1663&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1663\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-HX1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1230812639&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC00113\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?fit=604%2C392&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-1024x665.jpg?resize=604%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C665&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C499&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C998&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1330&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC00113-scaled.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good news, we got our washing machine replaced. Apart from that not much. Also I finally tested negative for covid this afternoon, so that at least is a plus. But otherwise an annoying and somewhat difficult week, and I still feel crap. My voice is just about still here. Otherwise I am still very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/18\/its-not-been-the-best-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Not Been The Best Week<\/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":[20,10,60,4,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179043,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/19\/its-nearly-the-longest-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":177334,"position":0},"title":"Its nearly the longest day","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Midsummer's fast approaching. 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Jan who ran Waltham Abbey Folk Club where I have played a few times. She became ill suddenly in January and died in a hospice this week on April 1st. She was a very interesting character and also had many cats. 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