{"id":249,"date":"2017-05-06T20:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T20:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:35:30","slug":"whats-with-those-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/whats-with-those-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with those hats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-250 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1aZF1kZ-e1494102447281.jpg?resize=200%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DCMJ Co-founder is arrested for possession of marijuana. April 24, 2017 (from Twitter -used with permission)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Phrygian cap has become a symbol to DCMJ, even if nobody else knows what it means. According to Adam Eidinger, \u201cDuring the Revolutionary War colonists donned Phrygian caps and constructed Liberty Poles as acts of defiance against the British government\u2019s unethical taxation of colonies without representation in British parliament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eidinger views his groups advocacy for marijuana reform as being similar to the struggles of our forefathers, and the hat has become a symbol of that struggle. \u00a0The cap is also visible of the seal of the U.S. Senate and has been used in artistic representations to symbolize the pursuit of freedom and liberty.<\/p>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/United-States-Senate-seal-1-e1494102910782.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Seal of The U.S. Senate, with a Phrygian cap, or Liberty cap.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/440px-Bust_Attis_CdM-1-e1494102983383.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bust of the Phyrgian God Attis, wearing a symbolic cap.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sansculottes-1-e1494103025975.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Revolutionaries wearing Phrygian Caps. (CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phrygian cap has become a symbol to DCMJ, even if nobody else knows what it means. According to Adam Eidinger, \u201cDuring the Revolutionary War colonists donned Phrygian caps and constructed Liberty Poles as acts of defiance against the British government\u2019s unethical taxation of colonies without representation in British parliament.&#8221; Eidinger views his groups advocacy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/whats-with-those-hats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s with those hats?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daisdc.com\/weed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}