{"id":272,"date":"2009-04-20T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:52","slug":"monday-april-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/monday-april-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, April 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>My nephew has been staying with me for a little over a week. \u00a0His parents went on a trip and asked me to watch him. \u00a0He&#8217;s in high school and is pretty quiet, but keeps saying &#8220;Today is 4\/20&#8221; then dissolving into laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a drug thing or a sex thing or something from a TV show or what? \u00a0I know it&#8217;s something I should be aware of. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always considered myself pretty cool so I feel bad that I don&#8217;t get this one.<\/p>\n<p>Yours Truly,<\/p>\n<p>I Thought I Was The Cool Aunt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear I.T.I.W.T.C.A,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/20 is the numerical symbol for all things marijuana.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s origins are shrouded in mystery, stupid stoners across the land have their own theories that they insist are true and will vehemently argue for until they lose interest and beg six buck off you to order a Jimmy Johns.\u00a0 The trick is to always have an empty wallet when dealing with a hungry stoner, because they rarely come up with the idea to use your credit card. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The best way to combat this new development is to immediately integrate 4\/20 and use it in very embarrassing ways.\u00a0 Use it as much as you can, and also laugh hysterically.\u00a0 Throw in a few elbow jabs if you can make it look natural.\u00a0 He might not stop smoking weed, but he will certainly stop being so annoying in front of you.\u00a0 Nothing squeezes the cool out of something like an adult doing it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, My nephew has been staying with me for a little over a week. \u00a0His parents went on a trip and asked me to watch him. \u00a0He&#8217;s in high school and is pretty quiet, but keeps saying &#8220;Today is 4\/20&#8221; then dissolving into laughter. Is this a drug thing or a sex &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/monday-april-20th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday, April 20th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}