{"id":66,"date":"2007-11-01T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2007\/11\/01\/celebrate-the-great-american-smokeout\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T17:35:28","slug":"celebrate-the-great-american-smokeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/celebrate-the-great-american-smokeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Great American Smokeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great American Smokeout is November 16th, and we&#8217;re making plans to participate.  I&#8217;ll be getting together with several cigar smoking buddies and we&#8217;ll smoke\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6out.  We&#8217;ll start with a round of cigars, filling the air with thick tobacco smoke and light conversation.  Then we&#8217;ll all have a very nice, very unhealthy dinner, followed by even more cigars.<\/p>\n<p>All smokers should make a point to smoke publicly and obviously on this day.  If you&#8217;re a non-smoking freedom lover you can still make a statement.  Buy a big cigar and pretend.  (And try lighting it up \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you might find you like it.)   Use this as an opportunity to make a statement about the whiney, sniveling, pussified, wimpy, nanny, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/podcasts\/index.html#Lipid\" target=\"_blank\">lipidleggin <\/a>society we&#8217;ve become.<\/p>\n<p>Use caution, though, when participating in similar events for the first time.  A few years ago I misinterpreted the intention of the Great American Meat Out and really embarrassed myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great American Smokeout is November 16th, and we&#8217;re making plans to participate. I&#8217;ll be getting together with several cigar smoking buddies and we&#8217;ll smoke\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6out. We&#8217;ll start with a round of cigars, filling the air with thick tobacco smoke and light conversation. Then we&#8217;ll all have a very nice, very unhealthy dinner, followed by even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}