{"id":7082,"date":"2016-12-29T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2325400&amp;preview_id=2325400"},"modified":"2016-12-29T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T22:07:06","slug":"editor-in-chief-ricardo-baca-says-farewell-to-the-cannabist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/editor-in-chief-ricardo-baca-says-farewell-to-the-cannabist\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor-in-chief Ricardo Baca says farewell to The Cannabist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/editor-in-chief-ricardo-baca-says-farewell-to-the-cannabist\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1245612\"><img class=\"lazyload \" alt=\"Ricardo Baca.\" width=\"4129\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>Callaghan O&#8217;Hare, The Denver Post file<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Baca.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/author\/rbaca\/\">Ricardo Baca<\/a>, who became the first marijuana editor for a mainstream news organization three years ago, announced Thursday he is resigning as editor-in-chief of The Cannabist to pursue other business interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post will conduct a national search to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of this news of my departure, The Cannabist is moving forward,\u201d Baca said this week on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/category\/culture\/the-cannabist-show\/\">The Cannabist Show<\/a>, a weekly talk show and podcast he\u2019s hosted for nearly 100 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect very, very good things from this show, this website, this staff in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cannabist launched in the last week of 2013, just ahead of the start of Colorado\u2019s historic recreational marijuana sales. Its coverage of legalization issues and cannabis culture across America and the globe\u2014has since gained a national audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Baca, who became the first marijuana editor for a mainstream news organization three years ago, announced he is resigning from The Cannabist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2655,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}