{"id":11727,"date":"2010-03-31T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/31\/the-speedball-express-and-other-quick-exits\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:52:27","slug":"the-speedball-express-and-other-quick-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/31\/the-speedball-express-and-other-quick-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Speedball&#8217; Express and Other Quick Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Remember John Belushi who took the &#39;speedball&#39; (heroin + cocaine) express to Kingdom Come? Or perhaps you recall the ill-starred Chris Farley who took the same train.&#0160; It is &#39;sobering&#39; to work through the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_artists_who_died_of_drug-related_causes\"><font face=\"Georgia\">litany<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> of celebrities who chose (whether proximately or ultimately) a drug- or alcohol-fueled exit from the <em>mundus sensibilis<\/em>.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember John Belushi who took the &#39;speedball&#39; (heroin + cocaine) express to Kingdom Come? Or perhaps you recall the ill-starred Chris Farley who took the same train.&#0160; It is &#39;sobering&#39; to work through the litany of celebrities who chose (whether proximately or ultimately) a drug- or alcohol-fueled exit from the mundus sensibilis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}