{"id":786,"date":"2010-04-22T00:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=786"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:41:31","slug":"april-news-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/04\/22\/april-news-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"April news round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, well I am still here just about, though feeling a little fragile at the moment.I have been giging a quite bit, between 2 and 3 gigs a week with Elephant Shelf &amp; the Deltas so that&#8217;s kept me suitably distracted. I still don&#8217;t have much of a long term plan, but it seems to me that much of what used to constitute my life has\u00c2&nbsp; blown away on the wind somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>An average day for me when not gigging consists of about 3 hours of piano practice and maybe working on writing new material and working on ideas for demos.\u00c2&nbsp; Also updating web stuff, and trying to keep my rusting programming skills intact, so that if any freelance stuff comes in I am actually ready to roll. I do miss the routine of going to an office and the certainty&#8217;s that it provides.\u00c2&nbsp; Mood-wise I have been quite low on a couple of days, and that has made the day to day mundane stuff difficult to get through. I have lost a lot of confidence and really do feel that would be quiet a good idea to retire to bed and stay there most days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, well I am still here just about, though feeling a little fragile at the moment.I have been giging a quite bit, between 2 and 3 gigs a week with Elephant Shelf &amp; the Deltas so that&#8217;s kept me suitably distracted. I still don&#8217;t have much of a long term plan, but it seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/04\/22\/april-news-round-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April news round-up<\/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_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-786","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-cG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":910,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/11\/18\/a-quiet-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":786,"position":0},"title":"A quiet week","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been involved with a lot of non-musical stuff this week, various website projects and fixing stuff. 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