{"id":6099,"date":"2010-10-29T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2010-10-29T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:28:19","slug":"when-i-was-taking-dope-i-was-fully-convinced-that-my-body-is-my-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/when-i-was-taking-dope-i-was-fully-convinced-that-my-body-is-my-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When I was taking dope, I was fully convinced that my body is my temple&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longevity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-11621076\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Richards<\/a> is a point of bafflement for drug warriors and rock groupies alike:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Rolling Stone&#8217;s autobiography reveals a lifetime of substance abuse. Why on earth hasn&#8217;t it killed him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His name is synonymous with rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll excess, his memoirs detail a lifetime spent ingesting a Herculean quantity of illegal drugs and he only gave up cocaine, aged 62, after he split his head open falling from a tree while foraging for coconuts.<\/p>\n<p>At 66, Keith Richards&#8217; continued survival is a source of widespread bafflement.<\/p>\n<p>According to addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever, director of the Promis recovery centre in Richards&#8217; native Kent, there is only one possible explanation for his longevity: &#8220;He must have the constitution of an ox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longevity of Keith Richards is a point of bafflement for drug warriors and rock groupies alike: The Rolling Stone&#8217;s autobiography reveals a lifetime of substance abuse. Why on earth hasn&#8217;t it killed him? His name is synonymous with rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll excess, his memoirs detail a lifetime spent ingesting a Herculean quantity of illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10,28],"tags":[119,200,199,417],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-liberty","category-media","tag-drugs","tag-music","tag-prohibition","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1An","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}