{"id":3031,"date":"2019-09-01T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2019-09-01T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:20:27","slug":"bravado-by-rush-songfacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/2019\/09\/bravado-by-rush-songfacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravado by Rush &#8211; Songfacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the Roll The Bones Tourbook, Neil Peart explained the line, &#8220;We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost&#8221;:&#8221;A line from John Barth&#8217;s The Tidewater Tales (he said I could use it) which echoed around inside me for a long time after I read that book. To me, it just means go for it. There are no failures of talent, only failures of character. I think that&#8217;s often true too. Sure there a lot of talented people who don&#8217;t achieve artistic or worldly success, but I think there&#8217;s usually a reason &#8211; a failure inside them. The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up &#8211; or if it comes true. That is called irony. We have to remember the oracle&#8217;s words, from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory and lumpy athletic shoes: Just do it. No excuses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/rush\/bravado\">Bravado by Rush &#8211; Songfacts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Roll The Bones Tourbook, Neil Peart explained the line, &#8220;We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost&#8221;:&#8221;A line from John Barth&#8217;s The Tidewater Tales (he said I could use it) which echoed around inside me for a long time after I read that book. To me, it just means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberval.com.br\/roberval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}