{"id":178090,"date":"2024-10-16T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178090"},"modified":"2024-10-16T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:54:13","slug":"such-times-as-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/16\/such-times-as-these\/","title":{"rendered":"Such Times As These."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I watch the news. I despair and feel so powerless. And there are still some bad people everywhere. Mustn&#8217;t grumble, but I will. Here is an angry song. Killing for peace doesn&#8217;t work it seems nor the concept of bombing starving people to save them.<br><br><strong>False Prophet <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1933303331&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=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\/false-prophet\" title=\"False Prophet\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">False Prophet<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a hard week for me as my mental health is really not good right now. When is it ever?<br><br>So I am trying to get through it as best I can really. Normally I get a bit of a lift as the clouds blowover but its not happening at present. So on with the usual stuff at home, recording practicing, production and this week a bit of video editing too. I did a charity gig with a band I part of yesterday with the proceeds going to a local food bank.It was very enjoyable and good to have a proper gig on a Saturday night, abet a teetotal one \ud83d\ude42 Other than that its back to wrestling with eternal questions&#8230;. 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I despair and feel so powerless. And there are still some bad people everywhere. Mustn&#8217;t grumble, but I will. Here is an angry song. Killing for peace doesn&#8217;t work it seems nor the concept of bombing starving people to save them. False Prophet Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 False Prophet It&#8217;s been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/16\/such-times-as-these\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Such Times As These.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178101,"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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241012_195022-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1801&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kkq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178090"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178119,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178090\/revisions\/178119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}