{"id":179005,"date":"2025-06-01T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179005"},"modified":"2025-06-01T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:13:04","slug":"frightened-for-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/01\/frightened-for-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Frightened For So Long"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frightened So Very Long. It&#8217;s a new song from me. And that&#8217;s how a lot of people are right now for all sorts of reasons. So here&#8217; a stream of consciousness song just for you. <\/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\/2104336737&#038;color=%23503034&#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\/frightened-so-very-long\" title=\"Frightened So Very Long\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Frightened So Very Long<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the best of days for me, just feeling a bit low again. I have been doing stuff though. I had another bad nights sleep so perhaps its connected. I just remixed a recent song I uploaded and used the ending for an introduction. Works much better like that. As in life occasional a little surgery may be required it seems to make the best of things. They say when you sup with the devil you need a long spoon, but can you always tell? <br><br>\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cLive in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.\u201d -Romans 12:16<\/em><\/strong><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frightened So Very Long. It&#8217;s a new song from me. And that&#8217;s how a lot of people are right now for all sorts of reasons. So here&#8217; a stream of consciousness song just for you. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Frightened So Very Long Not the best of days for me, just feeling a bit low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/01\/frightened-for-so-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frightened For So Long<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179032,"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-179005","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\/06\/Mars-.png?fit=1392%2C829&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kzb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179658,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/01\/03\/hello-its-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":179005,"position":0},"title":"Hello Its 2026","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Show Me Something I Can Believe In There are a lot of really unhinged mostly xenophobic people on Facebook and for some reason I seem to get a lot of friend requests from them. 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