{"id":5309,"date":"2014-08-21T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2014-08-21T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:40:12","slug":"august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/08\/21\/august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quite a varied year so \u00a0far, several change&#8217;s to plans \u00a0and also a friend having heart \u00a0surgery, \u00a0who is now recovering. \u00a0I am still beavering away on various music projects including completing the <a href=\"http:\/\/deltaladies.com\">Delta Ladies<\/a> new album. Our trip to France for some gigs has been put on hold, so that&#8217;s a bit of a disappointment, \u00a0though it does give me more time to improve my terrible French, which I am \u00a0attempting to learn \u00a0on a regular basis daily.<\/p>\n<p>In other news the world continues to turn but \u00a0gets worse every day it would seem with no redeeming features really. \u00a0I have a morbid fascination with the news though and can&#8217;t seem to ignore it. \u00a0I do watch BBC, Sky, RT &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=al+jazeera&amp;rlz=1C1AFAB_enGB498GB498&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1680&amp;bih=935&amp;source=univ&amp;tbm=nws&amp;tbo=u&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=2NX1U5erLczgarSsgvAF&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDEQqAI\">al jazeera<\/a>, \u00a0and read a lot of on line stuff from several different news papers all of which tends to be contradictory \u00a0and I glean from all of it some notion of whats going on, \u00a0though how near the truth that is who knows. \u00a0\u201cWhat is truth?\u201d retorted Pilate, there&#8217;s a thought?. \u00a0Very apt for these times in so many ways.<br \/>\nIt makes me very depressed, but I can&#8217;t seem to ignore it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/diana_stone\/13984639195\/in\/photostream\/player\/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quite a varied year so \u00a0far, several change&#8217;s to plans \u00a0and also a friend having heart \u00a0surgery, \u00a0who is now recovering. \u00a0I am still beavering away on various music projects including completing the Delta Ladies new album. Our trip to France for some gigs has been put on hold, so that&#8217;s a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/08\/21\/august-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-1nD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":174963,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/05\/30\/still-rusty-and-creaking\/","url_meta":{"origin":5309,"position":0},"title":"Still rusty and creaking.","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Going Nowhere Special Despite my best efforts I am still plagued with aches and pains and its tiring.\u00a0\u00a0 After playing for 2 hours and 2 hours driving yesterday for\u00a0 a rehearsal and a\u00a0 recording, I\u00a0 felt great when I got home yesterday but I am very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":118764,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/05\/30\/a-slight-touch-of-the-sad-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":5309,"position":1},"title":"A slight touch of the sad today","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I am quite affected by the lack of sun, it makes a huge difference to my mood and I have one of those SAD lamps which is supposed to give the effect of being in full daylight. 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