{"id":17991,"date":"2013-05-29T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/05\/29\/explore-blog-explore-blog-the-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T01:44:40","slug":"explore-blog-explore-blog-the-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/05\/29\/explore-blog-explore-blog-the-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/post\/51640074624\/the-cannabis-experience-has-greatly-improved-my\">explore-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore-blog.tumblr.com\/post\/51640074624\">explore-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before. The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I\u2019m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse\u2026. \u00a0A very similar improvement in my appreciation of music has occurred with cannabis. For the first time I have been able to hear the separate parts of a three-part harmony and the richness of the counterpoint. I have since discovered that professional musicians can quite easily keep many separate parts going simultaneously in their heads, but this was the first time for me.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/tagged\/carl-sagan\">Carl Sagan<\/a>, pot-proponent.<\/p>\n<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curatorscode.org\">\u21ac<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/carl_sagan_extols_the_virtues_of_cannabis_1969.html\">Open Culture<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>explore-blog: explore-blog: The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before. The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I\u2019m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse\u2026. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/05\/29\/explore-blog-explore-blog-the-cannabis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2171],"class_list":["post-17991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yep-yep-yep-yep-yep","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17992,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions\/17992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}