{"id":8483,"date":"2019-07-05T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2023-07-12T04:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:30:51","slug":"louis-pasteur-420-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/louis-pasteur-420-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Pasteur &#8220;420&#8221; statue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/48201651527\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48201651527_1c6bb15784.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Pasteur &quot;420&quot; statue\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I got off the bus from the Larkspur Ferry Terminal, I discovered I was a short walk from the origin of a well known slang term: 420, the not-so-secret code for marijuana. I had to go see it for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/420-louis-pasteur-statue\">Atlas Obscura explains<\/a> this unusual statue of Louis Pasteur in front of San Rafael High School was a meeting point for a group of students in the early 1970&#8217;s. These students met at the statue at 4:20 PM after school to head out and smoke marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term 420 was somehow picked up by the band The Grateful Dead and it spread from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This got me wondering about something: how many hippie types with &#8220;420&#8221; t-shirts and such are anti-vaxxers who drink unpasteurized milk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got off the bus from the Larkspur Ferry Terminal, I discovered I was a short walk from the origin of a well known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Louis Pasteur \"420\" statue - MrEricSir.com","description":"When I got off the bus from the Larkspur Ferry Terminal, I discovered I was a short walk from the origin of a well known slang term: 420, the not-so-secret code"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1411,1409,38,222],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-1411","tag-northbaytrip2019","tag-photos","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}