{"id":703,"date":"2010-08-11T21:53:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-08-11T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T04:54:26","slug":"theyre-just-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/theyre-just-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re just getting BETTER&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/rushrocks2010-01.jpg\" alt=\"rush time machine tour rocks\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/rushrocks2010-01.jpg\" alt=\"rush time machine tour rocks\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m thinking that they should use that time machine to go back to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Rush_instrumentals#La_Villa_Strangiato\">when they were struggling to record La Villa Strangiato<\/a> and tell themselves: &#8220;You know, dudes, this song that it&#8217;s taking you like, 40 takes to record? When you&#8217;re like, old, and pushing sixty, you&#8217;ll play this live &#8230; in concert &#8230; at the end of a difficult set that involves playing one of your most technically challenging albums in its entirety &#8230; and you&#8217;ll do it uptempo, playing it faster and rocking it harder than you ever have before. In one take. So take heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230;<br \/>\n-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m thinking that they should use that time machine to go back to when they were struggling to record La Villa Strangiato and tell themselves: &#8220;You know, dudes, this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,5],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-temples-of-syrinx","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}