{"id":697,"date":"2010-09-10T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2010-09-10T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:14:59","slug":"no-smoking-at-the-veterans-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"No Smoking at the Veterans Home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GRPR028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-698\" title=\"GRPR028.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GRPR028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GRPR028.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GRPR028-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GRPR028-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, September 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in South Carolina, tobacco use was not so much encouraged as it was celebrated. The stuff grows like, well, like weeds, so it just made good sense to support it. The fact that it is insanely addictive certainly helped. You were, for all intents and purposes, handed a pack of smokes when you entered the state. I remember the coaches of my brother\u2019s baseball team sharing a chunk of their Red Man chew with an eight year-old kid who simply asked for it. Yep. I am deeply thankful that I was never hooked.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI think about this occasionally when I see others who were in fact hooked &#8212; huddled in their designated smoker areas, exposed to the elements, and hopefully downwind. There but for the grace of\u2026 well, I don\u2019t pretend to know God\u2019s intentions for such things. But unless he\u2019s from South Carolina, I\u2019m guessing he\u2019d prefer I didn\u2019t smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, September 4, 2010 Growing up in South Carolina, tobacco use was not so much encouraged as it was celebrated. The stuff grows like, well, like weeds, so it just made good sense to support it. The fact that it is insanely addictive certainly helped. You were, for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}