{"id":20672,"date":"2013-12-10T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:49:04","slug":"print-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/print-the-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Print the Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ringo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-20673 aligncenter\" alt=\"ringo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ringo.png\" width=\"366\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ringo.png 457w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ringo-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ransom Stoddard:<\/strong> You&#8217;re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maxwell Scott:<\/strong> No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<em>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I came across this picture the other day with attached caption and vaguely remembered it from years ago. So I posted it on Facebook for a laugh and was immediately admonished. &#8220;Not true,&#8221; said one person. &#8220;Fake,&#8221; deadpanned another.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that this is not the first time I had seen or heard this quote, which is attributed to John, but I think refers to Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it pops up, I suspect, is that the &#8220;legend was fact,&#8221; arguably. I think you could argue that Paul was the best drummer in The Beatles. And the best guitar player. And singer. Guitarist. Piano. Sitar? I&#8217;m not saying you would win every argument, but there is an argument to be made there.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of another example, in all the world of rock, like this? A story that has been proven false beyond the shadow of a doubt but survives because it makes perfect sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransom Stoddard: You&#8217;re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott? Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. &#8211;\u00a0The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I came across this picture the other day with attached caption and vaguely remembered it from years ago. So I posted <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/print-the-legend\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}