{"id":12216,"date":"2021-05-07T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:44:21","slug":"interviews-with-some-irish-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12216","title":{"rendered":"Interviews with Some Irish Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDxfNFY3HT4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts from several contemporary Irish practitioners about the Craft and nature, including an appearance by <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ucc.ie\/profiles\/A040\/j.butler@ucc.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenny Butler<\/a>, a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.equinoxpub.com\/POM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Pomegranate&#8217;s <\/em><\/a>editorial board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts from several contemporary Irish practitioners about the Craft and nature, including an appearance by Jenny Butler, a member of The Pomegranate&#8217;s editorial board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,18,48,6,29],"class_list":["post-12216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ireland","tag-nature","tag-nature-religion","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3b2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7362,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7362","url_meta":{"origin":12216,"position":0},"title":"Irish Druids Now Officially &#8220;Indigenous&#8221; \u2014\u00a0They Say","author":"Chas S. 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