{"id":178801,"date":"2025-03-25T16:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178801"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:44:42","slug":"going-forward-because-we-cant-find-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/25\/going-forward-because-we-cant-find-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Going forward because we cant find reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a new song.<br><br><strong>Better World If Only<\/strong><br><br>I am having one of those I should be happy but I am not days. I think I need a mental refresh of sorts as I feel things have got a bit stale. It happens to us all of course. Maybe its just one bad day. Things are mostly OK. Mostly things are positive. Even my old car is running again! Lots of good things.Its just whatever is happening in my head at the moment. It happens. I have been using the mood tracking app and patterns are appearing as I expected inevitably.<br>I have done fairly well. I have 2 bands and a trio and occasional others to play live music with. My own original stuff is doing quite well and is heard a lot more now than it ever was. I have a comfortable home in a fairly nice place with open countryside near by. I won&#8217;t starve. A lot is very good. I do miss old friends of course&#8230;<br><\/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\/2061386896&#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\/better-world-if-only\" title=\"Better World If Only\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Better World If Only<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dianastonemusic\/video\/7485372057568431382\" data-video-id=\"7485372057568431382\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" > <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@dianastonemusic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dianastonemusic?refer=embed\">@dianastonemusic<\/a> <a title=\"music\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/music?refer=embed\">#music<\/a> <a title=\"dianasmusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dianasmusic?refer=embed\">#dianasmusic<\/a> <a title=\"lovemymusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/lovemymusic?refer=embed\">#lovemymusic<\/a> <a title=\"dianastonesglasscage\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dianastonesglasscage?refer=embed\">#dianastonesglasscage<\/a> <a title=\"dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dianastone?refer=embed\">#dianastone<\/a> <a title=\"vocal\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/vocal?refer=embed\">#vocal<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Diana Stone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7485372057220320023?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Diana Stone<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully I will see you some of you on the flip side \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a new song. Better World If Only I am having one of those I should be happy but I am not days. I think I need a mental refresh of sorts as I feel things have got a bit stale. It happens to us all of course. Maybe its just one bad day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/03\/25\/going-forward-because-we-cant-find-reverse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going forward because we cant find reverse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178827,"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-178801","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\/2025\/03\/2cv.jpg?fit=989%2C636&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KvT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66934,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/01\/19\/bus-pass\/","url_meta":{"origin":178801,"position":0},"title":"Bus Pass","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the joys of living in London is that at the age of 60 you get free travel on the bus and tube. 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