{"id":178218,"date":"2024-11-06T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178218"},"modified":"2024-11-06T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:49:09","slug":"if-you-have-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/06\/if-you-have-power\/","title":{"rendered":"If you have power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a lot of people who awoke today whose world  now feels a lot  less safe and secure.  Many who are seen as the &#8220;other&#8221;.<br>Many who are not seen at all.  If you have power to do well by your neighbours, try and remember that and not to be swept away by anger or rage or fear and hold fast.    <br><br><strong>&#8220;Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<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\/518269776&#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\"><\/iframe><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\/so-scared\" title=\"So Scared\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">So Scared<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"642\" data-attachment-id=\"178230\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/06\/if-you-have-power\/usa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/usa.jpg?fit=903%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"903,960\" 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=\"usa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/usa.jpg?fit=604%2C642&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/usa.jpg?resize=604%2C642&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/usa.jpg?w=903&amp;ssl=1 903w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/usa.jpg?resize=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/usa.jpg?resize=768%2C816&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of people who awoke today whose world now feels a lot less safe and secure. Many who are seen as the &#8220;other&#8221;.Many who are not seen at all. If you have power to do well by your neighbours, try and remember that and not to be swept away by anger or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/06\/if-you-have-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you have power<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178233,"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-178218","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\/11\/Daisys--scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1244&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kmu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155522,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/01\/22\/i-hope-for-those-of-you-that-are-in-need-something-turns-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":178218,"position":0},"title":"I hope for those of you that are in need something turns up.","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I have seen some very sad posts on Facebook recently. 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