{"id":800,"date":"2012-08-13T22:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T06:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:36:39","slug":"neil-peart-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/13\/neil-peart-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Peart Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting (but brief) interview with Neil Peart about Clockwork Angels<\/a> and other topics.<\/p>\n

…I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re guarded. Certainly there is a line that seems perfectly clear to me about what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to be shared and what isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not always so clear to others. Extroverts never understand introverts…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I got the singles (“Caravan” and “BU2B”) back in April of 2011 when they came out, and the album back in June. It’s okay, but I prefer their stuff from Hemispheres<\/a> to maybe Hold Your Fire<\/a> (or even Presto<\/a> and Roll the Bones<\/a>) compared with stuff from Counterparts<\/a> and later in the 1990s. It came with a PDF booklet, which I guess I ought to have read. If it had been on a CD, or a 12″ album, I’m sure I would have read the liner notes. As it was, I didn’t even realize it was a concept album. In a few weeks the novelization comes out: Clockwork Angels: The Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

There was also this bit:<\/p>\n

A realization I had lately: it is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s philosophically absolutely opposed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif they could only think about what they were saying for a minute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know a lot of my seminary<\/a> friends would agree with him about that. As for me, well, that’s a wall I’ll just keep beating my head against. (Bonus questions: is the point even to “follow” his “teachings?” Is Jesus just a teacher? Can Christians be involved in politics at all? That was a live question for the first century of the Reformation, and still today informs much of the tradition: Amish, say, or Quakers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting (but brief) interview with Neil Peart about Clockwork Angels and other topics. …I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re guarded. Certainly there is a line that seems perfectly clear to me about what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to be shared and what isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6,23],"tags":[611,614,613,612,615,616,617,541,246],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life","tag-canada","tag-clockwork-angels","tag-drumming","tag-drums","tag-introverts","tag-jesus","tag-republican","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-rush"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-cU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}