{"id":1261,"date":"2018-10-26T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:12:07","slug":"marijuana-jokes-in-shorty-supply-one-week-after-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana jokes in shorty supply one week after legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1262\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capture-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Only one week after Canada became the first country to legalize marijuana jokes about weed have stopped appearing on social media. \u201cThe first few days were awesome\u201d said local marijuana joke-teller Caleb Richards \u201cthe jokes were everywhere. \u00a0We had stuff about clouds of weed-smoke covering Canada\u00a0on weather maps and all the Doritos jokes.\u00a0 Now there is nothing\u201d.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Experts had warned that jokes about marijuana wouldn\u2019t have a long shelf-life. \u201cThey tend to go moldy after three to six months but I am surprised at how fast these jokes burned out.\u00a0\u00a0 They were passed around on social media and all the weed-jokes seemed to get used up on the first day or two after legalization\u201d explained Dr. Mathew Sydall of the Comedy Institute of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>When will we\u00a0see new and more long-lasting weed jokes? Dr. Sydall thinks it may be some time before weed-jokes take over our newsfeeds again \u201cMy guess is we might see a rebound next year when the weed-retail establishments become more prevalent in the interim I think most people will just go back to dick jokes\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Only one week after Canada became the first country to legalize marijuana jokes about weed have stopped appearing on social media. \u201cThe first few days were awesome\u201d said local marijuana joke-teller Caleb Richards \u201cthe jokes were everywhere. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}