{"id":10630,"date":"2016-11-06T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2016-11-06T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:20:29","slug":"marijuana-votes-put-pressure-on-us-government-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/marijuana-votes-put-pressure-on-us-government-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana votes put pressure on US government &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/7FA2\/production\/_92147623_img_1427.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>#News420<br \/>\nMarijuana votes put pressure on US government &#8211; BBC News<br \/>\n#election2016 #LegalizeIt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbc.in\/2fsW88G\">http:\/\/bbc.in\/2fsW88G<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#News420 Marijuana votes put pressure on US government &#8211; BBC News #election2016 #LegalizeIt http:\/\/bbc.in\/2fsW88G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16406,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/canadas-legislature-votes-to-legalize-marijuana-sales-will-begin-in-weeks\/","url_meta":{"origin":10630,"position":0},"title":"Canada&#8217;s Legislature Votes To Legalize Marijuana; Sales Will Begin In Weeks","date":"June 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Canada is almost there! 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