{"id":1366,"date":"2008-09-06T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-03-24T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:59:10","slug":"cheech-and-chong-still-toking-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Cheech and Chong still toking after all these years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/Cheech-and-Chong-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5882\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/Cheech-and-Chong-x650.jpg\" alt=\"Cheech and Chong x650\" width=\"618\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/Cheech-and-Chong-x650.jpg 618w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/Cheech-and-Chong-x650-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>My old TV Guide mate Bill Brioux has a pretty good interview in The Toronto Star today with Cheech and Chong, the great seventies tokers, who are back on tour in North America for the first time in ages. This is how the article begins:<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it high time for a Cheech and Chong reunion?<\/p>\n<p>After decades of bitterness and one memorable bust, those counter-culture comedians \u2013 Richard (Cheech) Marin and Tommy Chong \u2013 are ready for another joint venture.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve smoked the peace pipe and are reuniting for a giant comedy tour \u2013 their first in 25 years \u2013 which kicks off tonight at their favourite performance venue in the world, Toronto&#8217;s Massey Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong> Bill&#8217;s full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/article\/490883\">interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett My old TV Guide mate Bill Brioux has a pretty good interview in The Toronto Star today with Cheech and Chong, the great seventies tokers, who are back on tour in North America for the first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1366\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[388,439,440,1158,1184],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bill-brioux","tag-cheech-and-chong","tag-cheech-marin","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-tommy-chong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5883,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}