{"id":3145,"date":"2016-03-10T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2016-03-10T22:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:56:17","slug":"end-of-an-era-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/end-of-an-era-2\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3147\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3147\" title=\"20150723_223935-ANIMATION\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_223935-ANIMATION1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_223935-ANIMATION1.gif 972w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_223935-ANIMATION1-300x169.gif 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_223935-ANIMATION1-600x338.gif 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Rush has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/2016\/03\/10\/Rush-Were-done-with-touring\/1481457594252\/\">they\u2019re no longer going to tour<\/a>. Now, I take announcements of retirement by musicians with a grain of salt &#8211; how many farewell tours did Cher and Tina Turner have? &#8211; unless the musicians have actually died, and then hey, there\u2019s always Tupac to throw a wrench in that monkey. (He, Elvis and Jim Morrison recently announced their tour &#8211; I\u2019ll stop.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_192124.jpg\" alt=\"20150723_192124.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But Rush has been touring for 40 years, their R40 concert was amazing, and their last several albums were solid &#8211; if there\u2019s any time they should stop, this is it. If I\u2019d done something awesome for 40 years and I felt inclined to stop, that would be a good point to do it. (I never plan to stop; I want to faceplant in my keyboard before they freeze my head, but hey, that\u2019s me).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_192047.jpg\" alt=\"20150723_192047.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rush was my introduction to rock; it was the first rock band I enjoyed, the first music that my friends liked that I liked too. (Normally there\u2019s no crossover, or, rarely, the musical introductions went the other way around). I still remember \u201cTom Sawyer\u201d though, after the death of my dad \u201cVapor Trail\u201d is my favorite. And a Rush concert was one of the first dates I had with my future wife.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3148\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3148\" title=\"20150723_203541-ANIMATION\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_203541-ANIMATION1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_203541-ANIMATION1.gif 972w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_203541-ANIMATION1-300x169.gif 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20150723_203541-ANIMATION1-600x338.gif 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your laurels, my never-forgotten friends. Your labors may or may not be ended, but your music will live forever.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Rush has announced that they\u2019re no longer going to tour. Now, I take announcements of retirement by musicians with a grain of salt &#8211; how many farewell tours did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,164],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-we-call-it-living","tag-we-have-assumed-control","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}