{"id":1355,"date":"2005-02-10T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/10\/hes-popeye-the-pothead-man-toot-toot\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T21:25:11","slug":"hes-popeye-the-pothead-man-toot-toot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"He&#039;s Popeye the Pothead Man&#8230; (toot! toot!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This entertaining Alternet article explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/drugreporter\/21206\/\">what Popeye has stuffed in his pipe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;is the spinach which gives Popeye his super-strength really a metaphor for another magical herb? Have children around the world been adoring a hero who is really a heavy consumer of the forbidden weed &#8212; marijuana?<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is circumstantial, but it is there, and when added together it presents a compelling picture that, for many readers at least, Popeye&#8217;s strength-giving spinach is meant as a clear metaphor for the miraculous powers of marijuana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/elayneriggs.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/popeye-stoner-man-thanks-to-heidi.html\">Pen-Elayne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entertaining Alternet article explains what Popeye has stuffed in his pipe: &#8230;is the spinach which gives Popeye his super-strength really a metaphor for another magical herb? Have children around the world been adoring a hero who is really a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}