{"id":178177,"date":"2024-11-01T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178177"},"modified":"2024-11-01T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T15:18:37","slug":"november-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/01\/november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here it comes. But not yet winter. The trees are turning and locally the roads are empty mostly. The real countryside is just moments away from home. To absent friends a small toast.<br>Its comfy for some. Of course people don&#8217;t want to see through it. See the man behind the curtains pulling the levers to create the illusion like the Wizard Of Oz. Their off down the yellow brick road looking for somewhere over the rainbow land&#8230;as you know you climb the mountain, then the all the wise man in the cave at the top has to say is &#8220;Fancy a cup of tea, it&#8217;s a nice view from here&#8221; It&#8217;s a universal trope, with some validity. Terry Pratchett was actually an earthly manifestation of the divine I am sure.<br><br><strong>Ace in My Hand Yesterday<\/strong><br><br>A recent jazz world fusion excursion from me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1946252379&amp;color=%238c8cc8&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=\"Ace In My Hand Yesterday\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/ace-in-my-hand-yesterday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ace In My Hand Yesterday<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A stream of kids are going next door for Trick or Treats. Also its Diwali so there are fireworks banging which I could really do without. <br>My new Album will be released in 2 weeks time. I refuse to say dropped because I am so very old school. &#8220;Ace In My Hand&#8221; the track above is on is on it.<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=\"805\" data-attachment-id=\"178200\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/01\/november-2024\/into-the-dark\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?fit=3000%2C4000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3000,4000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"InTo The Dark\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?fit=604%2C805&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark-768x1024.png?resize=604%2C805&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/InTo-The-Dark.png?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it comes. But not yet winter. The trees are turning and locally the roads are empty mostly. The real countryside is just moments away from home. To absent friends a small toast.Its comfy for some. Of course people don&#8217;t want to see through it. See the man behind the curtains pulling the levers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/01\/november-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">November 2024<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178192,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178177","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\/FB_IMG_1730016343921.jpg?fit=1080%2C608&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KlP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/02\/17\/would-you-buy-a-used-car-from-this-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":178177,"position":0},"title":"Would you buy a used car from this man?","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elephant Shelf&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elephant Shelf","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/elephant-shelf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"White Lion regulars notice a stranger amoungst them ","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/PH_212-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":488,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/20\/the-vanity-of-knowledge\/","url_meta":{"origin":178177,"position":1},"title":"The vanity of knowledge","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ecclesiastes 2:14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun;and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. 2:17 And I applied my mind to wisdom and to know madness and folly, and I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. 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