{"id":191935,"date":"2009-06-04T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/04\/the-kids-are-alright\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T22:24:00","slug":"the-kids-are-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/04\/the-kids-are-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Are Alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17 year old student in Gig Harbor, WA gave a speech supporting the legalization of marijuana at a school event highlighting persuasive  speeches.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the speech, he, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/topstories\/story\/765250.html\">he pulled out a joint and smoked it in front of the class<\/a>,&#8221; and then ate the roach (remainder of the joint).<\/p>\n<p>I applaud his courage, though school officials did not.  They called in the local sheriff, and he was sent to juvenile hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17 year old student in Gig Harbor, WA gave a speech supporting the legalization of marijuana at a school event highlighting persuasive speeches. At the end of the speech, he, &#8220;he pulled out a joint and smoked it in front of the class,&#8221; and then ate the roach (remainder of the joint). I applaud &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-heroism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}