{"id":1661,"date":"2005-05-31T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T21:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1661"},"modified":"2005-05-31T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:45:00","slug":"arent_we_uptigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/arent_we_uptigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Aren&#8217;t we uptight enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianspices.com\/html\/s062fclf.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"curry leaves.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/curry leaves.gif\" width=\"87\" height=\"197\" align=right hspace=20 vspace=10 border=0\/><\/a>\nFrom the verdant paradise of my ancestors comes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.webindia123.com\/news\/showdetails.asp?id=84615&#038;cat=India\">a story<\/a> that has my head ringing with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/93\/93aweed.phtml\">You put your WEED in it!<\/a>&#8220;&#8211; apparently, a needless slaughter of innocent,  Idukki-dwelling Cannabis plants took place in Kerala&#8230;I ask you, where&#8217;s the outrage? \ud83d\ude09  Oh, and what next?<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The Kerala government will convert part of an 8,000-acre forest that used to be dense with cannabis plants into a tourist adventure and herbal park.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Apart from the adventure park, we propose to convert the place into a herbal park as several species of herbal plants are growing in the area,&#8221; Forest Minister T. Radhakrishnan told reporters here Tuesday.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>What&#8217;s an herbal park&#8230;without HERB?  Sheesh.<\/p>\n\n<p>If I had to guess, I would speculate that the park will be full of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianspices.com\/html\/s062fclf.htm\">Karriveppilei<\/a>, that sacred, venerated Malayalee houseplant that my mom would save from a burning building before any thought of me, my sister or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendster.com\/user.php?uid=1649324\">my dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nAbout 114,000 cannabis plants were destroyed.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Omg, they killed cannabis.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spscriptorium.com\/\">Those bastards<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09  Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I have to go veg to more Comedy Central, lest I run out of cute ways to blog things. \ud83d\ude00<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the verdant paradise of my ancestors comes a story that has my head ringing with &#8220;You put your WEED in it!&#8220;&#8211; apparently, a needless slaughter of innocent, Idukki-dwelling Cannabis plants took place in Kerala&#8230;I ask you, where&#8217;s the outrage? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/arent_we_uptigh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}