{"id":28093,"date":"2021-04-25T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28093"},"modified":"2021-04-25T07:17:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:17:46","slug":"welcome-to-the-dystopian-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/welcome-to-the-dystopian-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The Dystopian Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where <a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecurmudgeon.com\/2021\/04\/23\/rush-canadian-libertarian-birth-control\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">one links<\/a> to a humor piece entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/an-faq-about-your-new-birth-control-the-music-of-rush\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">AN FAQ ABOUT YOUR NEW BIRTH CONTROL: THE MUSIC OF RUSH<\/a> and one feels compelled to add:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In case you\u2019ve never heard of Rush, you really should. Seriously, love \u2019em or hate \u2019em, you\u2019re incomplete if you haven\u2019t heard at least a few of their songs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a world we now live in!<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: The three Rush songs <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=ipod+at+the+gym\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">on my gym playlist<\/a>: &#8220;Fly By Night&#8221;, &#8220;Roll the Bones&#8221;, and &#8220;Dreamline&#8221;&#8211;coincidentally, what 97 QFM was playing in 1991, when <em>Roll the Bones<\/em> was something of a comeback album even though the band had not really been away.)<\/p>\n<p>I have given my oldest son a number of Pink Floyd albums (<em>The Wall<\/em>, <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>, <em>Wish You Were Here<\/em>) for Christmas to hopefully helpfully forestall the day when one has to explain which one&#8217;s Pink.  (The lad asked me the other day, &#8220;Waters or Gilmour?&#8221; probably to like the opposite one better&#8211;teenagers!)<\/p>\n<p>I know, that&#8217;s two music posts in a row.  But, c&#8217;mon, man, you&#8217;re not here for the hot takes on news and politics, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where one links to a humor piece entitled AN FAQ ABOUT YOUR NEW BIRTH CONTROL: THE MUSIC OF RUSH and one feels compelled to add: In case you\u2019ve never heard of Rush, you really should. Seriously, love \u2019em or hate \u2019em, you\u2019re incomplete if you haven\u2019t heard at least a few of their songs. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28094,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093\/revisions\/28094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}