{"id":2151,"date":"2005-05-16T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2005-05-16T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T19:56:00","slug":"hoodies-baseball-caps-and-ganja-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/05\/16\/15\/56\/hoodies-baseball-caps-and-ganja-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoodies, Baseball Caps and Ganja, Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh from his accountability moment<\/a>, Tony Blair is tackling some of the thorniest issues facing British society<\/a>: criminalising “hoodies”<\/a> and baseball caps while keeping marijuana decriminalised (despite a “get tough”<\/a> pre-election stance<\/a>). In the midst of a moral<\/a> panic<\/a>, Blair recently came out in support of moves to ban the wearing of hooded leisure tops<\/a> in public, especially when coupled with that nefariously potent symbol of evil<\/a>: the baseball cap. Meanwhile, the committe whose recommendation resulted in the Commons reclassification of cannabis<\/a> in Britain to a Class C drug (a misdemeanour equivalent to possessing a prescription drug without a valid prescription) says it sees no reason to reverse its decision<\/a>, even as Olympians are tarred and feathered<\/a>. Meanwhile, sales of verboten hoodies can only increase<\/a>, while cannabis becomes distinctly<\/a> less cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh from his accountability moment, Tony Blair is tackling some of the thorniest issues facing British society: criminalising “hoodies” and baseball caps while keeping marijuana decriminalised (despite a “get tough” pre-election stance). In the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}