{"id":11826,"date":"2020-10-22T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T16:19:01","slug":"can-you-handle-the-truth-about-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11826","title":{"rendered":"How the Irish Invented Halloween (But Americans Saved It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11826-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/How-the-Irish-really-invented-Halloween.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/How-the-Irish-really-invented-Halloween.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/How-the-Irish-really-invented-Halloween.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Friend-of-this-blog <a href=\"http:\/\/research.ucc.ie\/profiles\/A040\/j.butler@ucc.ie\">Jenny Butler<\/a> (University College Cork) leads off this RTE video on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/brainstorm\/2020\/1021\/1173088-how-the-irish-really-invented-halloween\/\">How the Irish <em>really <\/em>invented Halloween<\/a>.&#8221; (You can watch a larger version at the link.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, divination with snails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend-of-this-blog Jenny Butler (University College Cork) leads off this RTE video on &#8220;How the Irish really invented Halloween.&#8221; (You can watch a larger version at the link.) 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