{"id":13091,"date":"2020-04-19T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2020-04-19T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:17:29","slug":"tommy-chong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=13091","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Chong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;I dropped out of\u00a0Crescent Heights High School\u00a0when I was 16 but probably just before they were going to throw me out anyway\u00a0&#8230; I played guitar to make money. I was about 16 when I discovered that music could get you\u00a0laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thomas Bing Kin Chong<\/strong>\u00a0(born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian actor, writer, director, musician,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cannabis_rights\">cannabis rights<\/a>\u00a0activist and comedian. He is known for his\u00a0marijuana-themed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheech_%26_Chong\">Cheech &amp; Chong<\/a>\u00a0comedy albums and movies with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheech_Marin\">Cheech Marin<\/a>, as well as playing the character\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_(That_%2770s_Show)\">Leo<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fox_Broadcasting_Company\">Fox<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/That_%2770s_Show\">That &#8217;70s Show<\/a><\/em>. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I dropped out of\u00a0Crescent Heights High School\u00a0when I was 16 but probably just before they were going to throw me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13094,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}