{"id":202,"date":"2004-06-06T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-06T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2004-06-06T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-06T03:12:00","slug":"202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow I always suspected . . . <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Salt Lake City Weekly<\/em> has a feature story <\/a>on how Jay’s Journal<\/em><\/a>, that staple of the nice-kid-caught-up-in-the-occult genre, is basically a fake. (Go Ask Alice<\/em><\/a> is another.)<\/p>\n

Titled <\/em>Jay’s Journal: The shocking diary of a 16-year-old helplessly drawn into a world of witchcraft and evil … <\/a> the book changed Alden from a sensitive, questioning young man with a high school girlfriend and sympathies toward Eastern religion to a curious teenager who unwittingly finds himself participating in vile satanic rituals, crazed sex with a girlfriend named Tina and outrageous acts of supernatural black magic. The book remains true to Alden’s fate, however. By book’s end, Jay kills himself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Me, I was never caught up “the occult.” It’s because I knew that “occult” is an adjective–as in “the occult what<\/em>?” (Sheesh, talk about a “disease of language.”<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Thanks to The Pagan Prattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow I always suspected . . . The Salt Lake City Weekly has a feature story on how Jay’s Journal, that staple of the nice-kid-caught-up-in-the-occult genre, is basically a fake. (Go Ask Alice is another.) Titled Jay’s Journal: The shocking diary of a 16-year-old helplessly drawn into a world of witchcraft and evil … the […]<\/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_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":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-202","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":423,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=423","url_meta":{"origin":202,"position":0},"title":"Jay's at it againJay Allen\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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