{"id":8522,"date":"2023-03-24T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:43:16","slug":"health-wellbeing-weather-in-my-head-window-to-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8522","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Weather in My Head \/ Window to The Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_7060.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather right now, as I\u2019m typing this post, is cold, windy, and raining. Perfectly reflecting my spirits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was sunny 30 minutes ago. And, perhaps rather astonishingly, it\u2019s going that way again. The rain has stopped. But the dripping continues. And the visible part of the sky, from where I\u2019m laying down, is a clean pure brilliant blue. I imagine there\u2019s a beautiful rainbow to be seen somewhere. Wish I could see it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That little passing cloudburst reminded me of the Donald Fagen <em>Sunken Condos<\/em> track\/lyric, The Weather In My Head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pw79PnIOoZI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I ought to take solace in how quickly that little cold wet blast lasted? So now the Dear Prudence lyric seems more apt: \u2018The sun is out, the sky is blue, it\u2019s beautiful, and so are you\u2026\u2019. Much better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that said, although my mood is fluctuating a lot. The dark clouds in my mind seem to hang about much longer than those that are currently scudding through the skies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather right now, as I\u2019m typing this post, is cold, windy, and raining. Perfectly reflecting my spirits. Or is it? It was sunny 30 minutes ago. And, perhaps rather astonishingly, it\u2019s going that way again. The rain has stopped. But the dripping continues. And the visible part of the sky, from where I\u2019m laying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Weather in My Head \/ Window to The Soul&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[163,89,216,81,67,68,235,236],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2ds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}