{"id":179824,"date":"2026-02-15T19:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179824"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:32:41","slug":"the-sun-shone-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/15\/the-sun-shone-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Shone Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2219854616&#038;color=%23400e0e&#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\/wasted-life\" title=\"Wasted Life\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Wasted Life<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes it really did. And it stopped raining too. I am still tired though. <br><br>Its weird to be honest. I have sort of zoned out the last few days after my anxiety thing on Wednesday night. I feel sort odd mentally. It was a bit cathartic as it brought into focus that I have mentally been pushing myself a bit too hard. Basically doing lots of doing is good on one level for mental health but not when it becomes a source of anxiety of its own.<br><br>last night I did work on some music and my sister Beverley rang in the middle of it. Rather than say I was busy I talked to with her for an hour then went back to what I was doing. It may well have worked better in musical terms for taking a break before carrying on. I have a frantic drive to finish things and sometimes perhaps it is detrimental to the finished product. <br><br>I think it may stem from things like having my art portfolio destroyed at school just before the exam so maybe subconsciously I am trying to &#8220;do it before they can stop me&#8221;? Today I went back to a song I have already released and did a remastered version. I have tended not to revisit things. There is a certain psychological thing making me go at everything like a bull in a China shop maybe?<br><br>I got some very nice feedback on an old song recently from a Facebook buddy so I listened to it again and decided it was actually a fairly decent piece of work and better than I remembered and that is always encouraging and up lifting. I am not sure how to rebalance my life but I do need to a bit as I live a lot in my head at times and for me perhaps now a trifle too much introspection is not a good thing and I am thinking slightly morbid thoughts a lot recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have hit a brick wall of sorts now. <br><br>Old age fucking or just fucking old age, chance would be a fine thing <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t57\/1\/16\/1f609.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\"> No ones safe when grandma discos on the rampage&#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;ll fight the army and the navy, just give me my gin&#8221; If I knew 40 years ago what I know now, I would have got myself in such a fine mess. Hallelujah. Oh my lord. Everyday I feel like I am turning more and more into cartoon character.<br><br>Valentines day has passed and I am recording stuff. its slowly coming together Ok. My energy is kind of elbow low though. That&#8217;s not helping.  Tea break maybe?  Other distractions may also be available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Wasted Life Yes it really did. And it stopped raining too. I am still tired though. Its weird to be honest. I have sort of zoned out the last few days after my anxiety thing on Wednesday night. I feel sort odd mentally. It was a bit cathartic as it brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/15\/the-sun-shone-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sun Shone Today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179849,"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-179824","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\/2026\/02\/Redbourn3-2.jpeg?fit=479%2C319&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KMo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179824"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179851,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179824\/revisions\/179851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}