{"id":499,"date":"2009-10-28T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-10-02T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:58:54","slug":"why-showbiz-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/28\/why-showbiz-is-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Why showbiz is fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me, Menno and friends after the Greta Garbitch show at the Cellar door recently.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/28\/why-showbiz-is-fun\/di-and-friends-cellar-door\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-500\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"500\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/28\/why-showbiz-is-fun\/di-and-friends-cellar-door\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Di-and-friends-Cellar-Door.jpg?fit=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Di and friends at the Cellar Door just after the show\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Di and friends at the Cellar Door just after the show&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Di and friends at the Cellar Door just after the show&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Di-and-friends-Cellar-Door.jpg?fit=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-500\" title=\"Di and friends at the Cellar Door just after the show\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Di-and-friends-Cellar-Door-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Di and friends at the Cellar Door just after the show\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Di-and-friends-Cellar-Door.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Di-and-friends-Cellar-Door.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Di and friends at the Cellar Door just after the show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me, Menno and friends after the Greta Garbitch show at the Cellar door recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-83","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":619,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/12\/14\/the-decade-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":499,"position":0},"title":"The Decade so far","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Get my first decent job & have some spare cash Join my first decent band after not playing live for about 20 years Resign from job, due to a variety of reasons including some health issues and toxic boss. 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