{"id":6361,"date":"2012-05-25T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T01:30:17","slug":"a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"A User&#8217;s Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama inhaled a lot apparently! These are just a few pics, more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/gavon\/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama\">Buzzfeed<\/a> that featured excerpts from &#8220;David Maraniss&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1439160406\/?tag=buzz0f-20\">Barack Obama: The Story<\/a> dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was in a club called The Choom Gang &#8220;A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning &#8220;to smoke marijuana.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"obama shades\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/terminal05\/2012\/5\/15\/16\/enhanced-buzz-5550-1337113549-0.jpg?resize=375%2C204\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"204\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"pres slick smoking\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/web03\/2012\/5\/15\/14\/enhanced-buzz-27382-1337106003-0.jpg?resize=375%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama inhaled a lot apparently! These are just a few pics, more at Buzzfeed that featured excerpts from &#8220;David Maraniss&#8217; Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[248],"tags":[12817,12819,12823,12820,12818,12822,12821],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}