{"id":11423,"date":"2016-12-14T19:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=11423"},"modified":"2016-12-14T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:32:59","slug":"the-gateway-drug-is-alcohol-not-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/the-gateway-drug-is-alcohol-not-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Gateway Drug\u2019 Is Alcohol, Not Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/countercurrentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/alcohol-is-the-gateway-drug-not-marijuana.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Exactly. Seems like I just said this the other night&#8230;I think we were watching Shameless.<br \/>\nYes, alcohol is the real gateway drug, folks. And remember what happened when they made it illegal? When drugs are a crime, everyone is a criminal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hxDAVb\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hxDAVb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly. Seems like I just said this the other night&#8230;I think we were watching Shameless. Yes, alcohol is the real gateway drug, folks. And remember what happened when they made it illegal? When drugs are a crime, everyone is a criminal. http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hxDAVb<\/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-11423","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":11899,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/are-lawmakers-moving-legalization-along-despite-gov-christie\/","url_meta":{"origin":11423,"position":0},"title":"Are lawmakers moving legalization along despite Gov. 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