{"id":657,"date":"2004-03-27T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T20:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=657"},"modified":"2004-03-27T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2004-03-27T20:35:49","slug":"the-best-move-ireland-has-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"The Best Move Ireland Has Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/03\/27\/ireland.smoking.ban.ap\/index.html\">CNN.Com: Ireland bans smoking in workplaces<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think part of the reason I ended up with double-lung walking pneumonia when I was there 6 years ago is that I was forced to breathe all the cigarette smoke.  It was so bad that there were times I couldn&#8217;t be in a place for more than 5 minutes before starting to smoke.  <\/p>\n<p>After living in California (which has very restrictive laws), it was strange to move to the Midwest where there are smoking and non-smoking sections of restaurants.  The local places don&#8217;t really separate them well and I&#8217;m usually gasping for my inhaler after going out to dinner.  There&#8217;s talk of a ban on smoking in public places in Minnesota and I am overwhelmingly for it.  People can go outside if they want to smoke.  The ventilation is better then anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I do believe that &#8220;smoker&#8217;s rights&#8221; is an oxymoron.  I&#8217;m asthmatic.  Your filthy habit has the potential to send me to the E.R., so of course I&#8217;m going to support any ban of your habit in public places and throw overwhelming support behind any taxes on tobacco.  Deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.Com: Ireland bans smoking in workplaces I think part of the reason I ended up with double-lung walking pneumonia when I was there 6 years ago is that I was forced to breathe all the cigarette smoke. It was so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=657\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-aB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}