{"id":72793,"date":"2017-03-16T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=72793"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:58:26","slug":"happy-ides-of-march-one-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/03\/16\/happy-ides-of-march-one-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ides of March one and all"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just always wanted to write that. \u00a0I am not even sure precisely what it means, but at the time of writing it being march and all that I thought I would throw it in.\u00a0Apparently it\u00a0says here on Wikipedia\u00a0The Ides<\/a> of March<\/b> (Latin<\/a>: Idus Martiae<\/i>, Late Latin<\/a>: Idus Martii<\/i>)[1]<\/a><\/sup>is a day on the Roman calendar<\/a> that corresponds to March 15. It was marked by several religious observances<\/a> and became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar<\/a> in 44 BC. The death of Caesar made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history, as one of the events that marked the transition from the historical period<\/a> known as the Roman Republic<\/a> to the Roman Empire<\/a>.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Although March (Martius<\/a>)<\/i> was the third month of the Julian calendar<\/a>, in the oldest Roman calendar it was the first month of the year. The holidays<\/a> observed by the Romans from the first through the Ides often reflect their origin as new-year celebrations.<\/p>\n

So Happy new ancient Roman New year to you all. Allegedly.<\/p>\n

Its a pleasant spring like day here in Battersea as I write this. and to celebrate the Ides I shall be mostly drinking tea and looking a bit like your granny. but after a really rough night on the gin. At the moment I am sorting out my latest Solo Album release which will be available on Amazon, I tunes and all that old malarkey. I have not done a proper release for about 2 years, so I though it was about time for another one. the Album goes under the splendid title “Monotony Calling” which is also the opening track. \u00a0It takes a little while to sort out out what with bar codes and IRSC numbers and stuff which are quite boring but important as if one is lucky enough to get radio play it all adds up eventually. I have had a bit of stuff played\u00a0on Radio down the years including radio 6 which is not bad going really. One should never give up hope and all that. It could happen again.<\/p>\n

Mood wise as the days get longer things get a little easier, \u00a0its fairly busy on the Delta Ladies front of course, in fact almost a little too busy at times. Some of the driving gets a bit tiring, this last week being Cambridge Brighton and various\u00a0\u00a0other bits of the home county’s and i do tend to run out of steam on the days between. Today I had all sorts of plans but its not panned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have just always wanted to write that. \u00a0I am not even sure precisely what it means, but at the time of writing it being march and all that I thought I would throw it in.\u00a0Apparently it\u00a0says here on Wikipedia\u00a0The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martiae, Late Latin: Idus Martii)[1]is a day on the Roman … Continue reading Happy Ides of March one and all<\/span> →<\/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_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-72793","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-iW5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175549,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/10\/23\/copacetic\/","url_meta":{"origin":72793,"position":0},"title":"Copacetic","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a recent Jazz fusion type tune that I recorded.Violin plus Rhodes Piano and Fretless Bass sound. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Copacetic I just escaped from Martins Charity Irish session at the Mill hotel in Bedford (In aid of the recent disaster at \u00a0Creeslough\u00a0). 3 hours worth, so I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Delta Ladies"","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/delta-ladies-diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220626_195852-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C585&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220626_195852-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C585&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220626_195852-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C585&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220626_195852-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C585&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220626_195852-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C585&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37505,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/04\/02\/islington-folk-club-floor-spot-march-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":72793,"position":1},"title":"Islington Folk Club floor spot March 2016","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 2, 2016","format":"image","excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Musings"","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delta ladies at Islington Folk Club","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12513659_10154042647430350_731794001557384114_o.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12513659_10154042647430350_731794001557384114_o.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12513659_10154042647430350_731794001557384114_o.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12513659_10154042647430350_731794001557384114_o.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12513659_10154042647430350_731794001557384114_o.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12513659_10154042647430350_731794001557384114_o.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4285,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/06\/22\/tens-of-thousands-march-in-london-against-coalitions-austerity-measures\/","url_meta":{"origin":72793,"position":2},"title":"Tens of thousands march in London against coalition’s austerity measures","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An estimated 50,000 people in London addressed by speakers, including Russell Brand, after People's Assembly march","rel":"","context":"In "Musings"","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Powered by Guardian.co.uk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardianBLACK.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6032,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/03\/01\/hello-march-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":72793,"position":3},"title":"Hello March 2015","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I wonder what you have in store for me then. \u00a0Suns out and I have a Delta Ladies gig to play this afternoon in Sandridge, which is just \u00a0a tad to the NE of St Albans. \u00a0Its threatening to rain though so fingers crossed it won't be too bad it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Musings"","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175262,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/03\/04\/march-onward-to-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":72793,"position":4},"title":"March Onward To What?","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 So bad news but also\u00a0 more band news mostly. On the Home Front my new Band played through an entire set and we did our first rehearsal with our own PA. It sounded fairly good as far as I can tell. I need to do a bit of video\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Delta Ladies"","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":7061,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/03\/26\/election-2015-i-couldnt-live-on-a-zero-hours-contract-cameron-tells-paxman-live\/","url_meta":{"origin":72793,"position":5},"title":"Cameron has edge over Miliband in TV battle, Guardian\/ICM poll shows – live","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"PM gets rough ride from Jeremy Paxman, who pressed him on the minimum wage, foreign policy and his 2010 pledges on VAT. Follow the audience Q&A nowNigel Farage gatecrashes the Sky studios \u2013 and heads to the barAll you need to know about tonight\u2019s Channel 4\/Sky News format","rel":"","context":"In "Musings"","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Powered by Guardian.co.uk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardianBLACK.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72793","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=72793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72794,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72793\/revisions\/72794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}