{"id":112,"date":"2005-04-22T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=112"},"modified":"2010-07-27T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:37:52","slug":"420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2005\/04\/22\/420\/","title":{"rendered":"420"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading about certain celebrations held on April 20th of this year 2005, I thought I had to recount my experiences with the date. <\/p>\n<p>  A few years back, when I was in college, I had the great honor of learning what 420 meant in and of itself.  It seems to me that the exact year may have been 2000, but I&#8217;m not sure.  I had went over to the apartment of a few friends that I had gone to high school with and had not seen probably since then.  Being typical college kids, they were into experiencing all the joys of partying and the like.  I just remember a lot of munchies, incessant reruns of <a href=\"www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/southpark\/\">SouthPark <\/a>, and funny shaped metal pipes.  <\/p>\n<p>  All the guys said they were making a point to stay up to 4:20 am, but were lax on details as to why this was such a crucial time, although it seemed entirely feasible given the male collegiate lifestyle.  So, being interested in being part of this endeavor, and having not seen the Southpark movie, I obliged their request to hang out til this time.  <\/p>\n<p>  Little did I realize until the fateful time arrived that 420 itself was a reference marijuana and that was a universal holiday and reason to light one up.  Also how odd that they used those oddly shaped metal pipes to partake in these festivities.  Ah, you live, you learn.  <\/p>\n<p>  This holiday also heightened my awareness of the &#8216;neat&#8217; graffiti that miracously appeared on Hwy 111 north of Nicollet one year, say sometime in April and was subsiquently redone the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading about certain celebrations held on April 20th of this year 2005, I thought I had to recount my experiences with the date. A few years back, when I was in college, I had the great honor of learning what 420 meant in and of itself. It seems to me that the exact year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}