{"id":646,"date":"2009-12-26T00:59:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T00:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-12-26T01:13:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T01:13:40","slug":"twas-christmasss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/12\/26\/twas-christmasss\/","title":{"rendered":"Twas Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing was stirring not even a mouse.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s very quite indeed here. I have just been watching Blade Runner on the BBC Iplayer but the film is beginning to disturb me so I stopped watching it. Its in silent moments that you know your really not playing with a full deck. You see who&#8217;s on their own as they tend to be logged into facebook trying to find something to say apart from I&#8217;m here. I have\u00c2\u00a0 been writing some code and starting to play with the face book API to see what glorious opportunity it provides for self-promotion. I am sure it will come in useful for something along the way.<br \/>\nAlso having my CV tuned, not that I expect it to do any good as I think even if I did land a job I am pretty close to barking mad most of the time now. I have a festive knees up of a gig tomorrow at the Farmers Boy in St Albans, which will provide some distraction for a while. Everything about St Albans makes me think of the lord of the rings: on the road there one passes an Inn called the Green Dragon though its not at Byewater its actually by the M25 and when you get there everyone is drinking real ale they all jolly and a lot of them are quite short in stature. I haven&#8217;t checked for hairy feet yet though! It may well be time for bed now, sort of.\u00c2\u00a0 So goodnight from me and the Pink Hippo, it keeps winking at me,\u00c2\u00a0 I am not sure why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing was stirring not even a mouse.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s very quite indeed here. I have just been watching Blade Runner on the BBC Iplayer but the film is beginning to disturb me so I stopped watching it. Its in silent moments that you know your really not playing with a full deck. You see who&#8217;s on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/12\/26\/twas-christmasss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twas Christmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-646","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-aq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":170328,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/10\/21\/a-damp-day-watching-the-leaves-turn-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":646,"position":0},"title":"A damp day watching the leaves turn again","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Ego, too much or too little can be equally damaging.\u00a0 Something I posted as a Facebook comment in response to a comment that was made by\u00a0 a musician claiming that his work was being taken away by non-professionals. 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