{"id":177419,"date":"2024-05-31T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177419"},"modified":"2024-05-31T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:38:39","slug":"times-a-funny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/31\/times-a-funny-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Times A Funny Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where did all those years go? And why is everything weird now like &#8220;Alice through the looking glass&#8221;. Up is down and black is white and newspeak rules. And Oceania is constantly at war with Eurasia and Eastasia. And it&#8217;s nearly June. Everything is very green but we have rain virtually every day at present. I personally can&#8217;t remember things being quite like this before.  The world seems pretty hopeless now, it could be a near paradise but greed and prejudice put paid to that. <br><br>A new instrumental track.<br><strong>Friends With Benefits <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1831458924&amp;color=%23bd6f3c&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=\"Friends With Benefits\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/friends-with-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends With Benefits<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So as usual I am doing what I do day to day. I had a brief overnight  visit from my sister, so a slight change to my normal routine. I am getting back into a bit more regular exercise again now the post  covid malaise seems to have worn off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"177431\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/31\/times-a-funny-thing\/20240525_204629\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?fit=1244%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1244,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1716669989&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0012376237623762&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20240525_204629\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?fit=498%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-498x1024.jpg?resize=498%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177431\" style=\"width:340px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?resize=498%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 498w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?resize=146%2C300&amp;ssl=1 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1580&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?resize=747%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?resize=996%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 996w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240525_204629-scaled.jpg?w=1244&amp;ssl=1 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who can you trust. My disillusionment increases day by day watching the run up to the UK election. At this point in my life it will make very little difference who is elected on a personal basis. But everything seems bleak generally in the world from where I stand. It could be that todays just a bad day for me personally of course. I have been jogging along feeling reasonably OK in the mental health department, but occasionally I get hit with something out of the blue that throws me off course. Ho hum. There are weeks when I see only my partner who is not always the best of communicators and that can seem strange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">last night I had a dream I was back at the office in a very junior position fileing and I was talking to work colleagues. I said it was the third time I had returned to work there. That&#8217;s quite odd as there has never been an occasion where I had returned to a workplace having left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did all those years go? And why is everything weird now like &#8220;Alice through the looking glass&#8221;. Up is down and black is white and newspeak rules. And Oceania is constantly at war with Eurasia and Eastasia. And it&#8217;s nearly June. Everything is very green but we have rain virtually every day at present. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/31\/times-a-funny-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Times A Funny Thing<\/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":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":[20,10,60,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K9B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85058,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/07\/11\/some-stuff-to-listen-to-whilst-everything-turns-to-shit\/","url_meta":{"origin":177419,"position":0},"title":"Some stuff to listen to whilst everything turns to shit","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 11, 2017","format":"audio","excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29096,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/12\/31\/happy-new-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":177419,"position":1},"title":"Happy new 2016","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 31, 2015","format":"status","excerpt":"Heres wishing you everything you wish yourself in the coming year. \u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":120351,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/06\/14\/everything-you-need-to-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":177419,"position":2},"title":"Everything you need to know","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Everything you need to know.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131950,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/11\/19\/thanks-for-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":177419,"position":3},"title":"Thanks for everything","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"There has been good bad and interesting along the way.\u00a0And for that thank you all. Is there more? I am not sure but if there isn't it was great wasn't it.It wasn't really your fault so don't beat yourself up about it. 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