{"id":288,"date":"2004-10-21T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2004-10-21T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T21:29:00","slug":"288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Musicians on drugs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/17\/arts\/music\/17tind.html?ex=1099394020&#038;ei=1&#038;en=467258001962297e\">These<\/a>, however, probably are not the musicians whom you expected to be reading about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians on drugs These, however, probably are not the musicians whom you expected to be reading about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-288","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1219,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1219","url_meta":{"origin":288,"position":0},"title":"Who Cares about &#8216;Cultural Appropriation&#8217;?","author":"Chas S. 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