{"id":95,"date":"2006-01-29T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-01-29T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T18:46:50","slug":"rush-on-the-trailing-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/rush-on-the-trailing-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush on the Trailing Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on my way to get some medicine, I was listening to a Best of Rush on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>He and a caller named Jill weren&#8217;t communicating very well at all.<\/p>\n<p>Finally she said, &#8220;At least I&#8217;m not a drug addict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Cheap shot,&#8221;<\/i> I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Not too much later, as they were talking all over each other, he finally exclaimed, &#8220;You are sounding like my two ex-wives. Shut up!&#8221; (The first sentence may not be an exact direct quote, but it&#8217;s very close.)<\/p>\n<p><i>That was cheap and ungracious.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That attack on his ex-wives, one of them &#8220;the lovely and gracious Marta,&#8221; was totally uncalled-for and gratuitous.<\/p>\n<p>They could offer nothing in their defense. I wonder what would be <i>their<\/i> side of the story of their marriage(s) to Rush.<\/p>\n<p>I would say he revealed less than The Best of Rush.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of being on The Cutting Edge of Societal Evolution, I would say he was conforming to the trailing edge.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on my way to get some medicine, I was listening to a Best of Rush on the radio. He and a caller named Jill weren&#8217;t communicating very well at all. Finally she said, &#8220;At least I&#8217;m not a drug addict.&#8221; &#8220;Cheap shot,&#8221; I thought. Not too much later, as they were talking all &#8230; <a title=\"Rush on the Trailing Edge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/rush-on-the-trailing-edge\/\" aria-label=\"More on Rush on the Trailing Edge\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}