{"id":1091,"date":"2008-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2008-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T00:00:00","slug":"galimaufry-with-seasons-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Galimaufry with "Season’s Greetings""},"content":{"rendered":"

¶ The Bad Witch mulls the issue of Pagan Yuletide songs<\/a> and greeting cards<\/a>. But, please, no e-cards. Nothing says “I couldn’t be bothered” like an e-card.<\/p>\n

¶ I am reading Keith Hartman’s The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. It’s not as noir<\/a> as it thinks it is, but it’s a fun read if you like cozy gay Wiccan Baptist futuristic Southern mysteries.<\/p>\n

¶ Don’t laugh, kids–this will be you some day. Rock stars of the 1960s and 1970s in their parents’ homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

¶ The Bad Witch mulls the issue of Pagan Yuletide songs and greeting cards. But, please, no e-cards. Nothing says “I couldn’t be bothered” like an e-card. ¶ I am reading Keith Hartman’s The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse. It’s not as noir as it thinks it is, but it’s a fun read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,6,12,43],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-wicca","tag-writing","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8412,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8412","url_meta":{"origin":1091,"position":0},"title":"Some “Spare” Links and the “Witchcraft Aesthetic”","author":"Chas S. 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When I ran across this website (another update of the old paper doll), I thought of two things right away. One was a book co-authored\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"witchcraft\"","block_context":{"text":"witchcraft","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=witchcraft"},"img":{"alt_text":"historical witch creator","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/historical-witch-creator.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=606","url_meta":{"origin":1091,"position":3},"title":"\"Free countries do not ban\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Free countries do not ban blasphemy\"Political blogger Andrew Sullivan has good things to say on the Danish cartoon controversy.Militant Muslims (and the Saudi government) want Muslims to stop buying Danish products. The Religious Policeman (a Saudi Arab himself) sarcastically notes that the \"Muslim Offense Level\" has been raised.It's time to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10019,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10019","url_meta":{"origin":1091,"position":4},"title":"Season of the Witch(crap), Part 2","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Season of the Witch(crap), Part 1\" here. Continuing . . . \u2022 One more \"high\" priestess joke, and you're out of here. 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