{"id":1013,"date":"2008-04-29T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2008-04-29T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:44:00","slug":"albert-hoffman-1906-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Albert Hoffman, 1906-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

He will always be remembered for a certain bicycle ride: Albert Hoffman has died<\/a>. He was the first chemist to synthesize LSD<\/a>, in 1938.<\/p>\n

MAPS has a tribute page up<\/a>. Here are his obituaries from the Telegraph<\/em><\/a> and from Gaia Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He will always be remembered for a certain bicycle ride: Albert Hoffman has died. He was the first chemist to synthesize LSD, in 1938. MAPS has a tribute page up. Here are his obituaries from the Telegraph and from Gaia Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entheogens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":590,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=590","url_meta":{"origin":1013,"position":0},"title":"The writer's egoThere are no\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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