{"id":178464,"date":"2024-12-28T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178464"},"modified":"2024-12-28T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T22:26:57","slug":"the-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/28\/the-doldrums\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\">The Intertropical Convergence Zone known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms because of its monotonous windless weather, or a period of being sad or bored and with no energy or enthusiasm. That&#8217;s where it&#8217;s at. Or just the period between Christmas and NYE. My demeanor is not improved by having a bad back at present. My sister visited from Christmas Eve and stayed until Friday. She is looking for a property in this area at present. It&#8217;s been a quiet time mostly though. I am back in the old routine again now working on music and related stuff again now. Not feeling a 100% on form though.  Latest tune for you below \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Don&#8217;t tell me I am Cute<\/h6>\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\/1996128031&#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;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/dont-tell-me-i-am-cute\" title=\"Dont Tell Me I Am Cute\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Dont Tell Me I Am Cute<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\">Something struck me as amusing today so the lyric mostly stems from a little freeforming  inspired by that.    <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intertropical Convergence Zone known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms because of its monotonous windless weather, or a period of being sad or bored and with no energy or enthusiasm. That&#8217;s where it&#8217;s at. Or just the period between Christmas and NYE. My demeanor is not improved by having a bad back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/28\/the-doldrums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Doldrums<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178475,"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-178464","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\/12\/20190602_131251-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1249&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kqs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":177971,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/27\/a-passing-low\/","url_meta":{"origin":178464,"position":0},"title":"A passing low","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In the doldrums' again. 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