{"id":48615,"date":"2014-12-02T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/to-bac-co-walt.html"},"modified":"2014-12-02T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:15:58","slug":"to-bac-co-walt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/to-bac-co-walt.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;TO-BAC-CO, Walt?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an interesting article on the history of tobacco (and its role in history) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/people-start-smoking-tobacco\/\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/people-start-smoking-tobacco\/<\/a>) provided a great excuse to link to this Bob Newhart classic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_XDxAzVEbN4' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ihBKJjVSVgZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an interesting article on the history of tobacco (and its role in history) (http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/people-start-smoking-tobacco\/) provided a great excuse to link to this Bob Newhart classic. 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