{"id":2190,"date":"2008-08-03T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2008-08-03T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:14:08","slug":"northern-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/northern-rock","title":{"rendered":"Northern Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a conversation about Rush trying to perform on Rock Band, the official VM wife asked me, “Is Rush the best Canadian rock band<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

I can’t think of a better one. Can you? (And don’t say Loverboy.)<\/p>\n

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Update: Should Rush be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a conversation about Rush trying to perform on Rock Band, the official VM wife asked me, “Is Rush the best Canadian rock band?” I can’t think of a better one. Can you? (And don’t say Loverboy.) Update: Should Rush be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?<\/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":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-zk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1016,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-was-a-marvel-zombie","url_meta":{"origin":2190,"position":0},"title":"I Was a Marvel Zombie","author":"Gil","date":"July 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Fun article at the Washington Post on the differences between Marvel & DC comics. 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