{"id":9113,"date":"2016-09-15T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2016-09-15T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:51:13","slug":"merle-haggard-joins-the-marijuana-business-from-beyond-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/merle-haggard-joins-the-marijuana-business-from-beyond-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Merle Haggard Joins the Marijuana Business From Beyond the Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images1.westword.com\/imager\/u\/original\/8315096\/merle_haggard_mike_brooks.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Merle wasn&#8217;t always a cannabis advocate. He even wrote a song, &#8220;Okie from Muskogee,&#8221; which became an anthem for anti-hippie sentiment in the early 1970s. 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The song begins with the lyrics, &#8220;We don&#8217;t smoke marijuana in Muskogee; We don\u2019t take no trips on LSD; We don\u2019t burn no draft cards down on Main Street; We [&hellip;]<\/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-9113","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":9374,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/six-celebrity-marijuana-business-ventures-in-colorado\/","url_meta":{"origin":9113,"position":0},"title":"Six Celebrity Marijuana Business Ventures in Colorado","date":"September 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hail Hail the Gang's all Here! 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