{"id":274,"date":"2004-09-29T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2004-09-29T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T20:56:00","slug":"274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily magic in Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russians continue to use “low” magic, says this news report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Ghoulish as Russian traffic police are, perhaps it makes sense to resort to unorthodox measures to ward them off.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily magic in Russia Russians continue to use “low” magic, says this news report. “Ghoulish as Russian traffic police are, perhaps it makes sense to resort to unorthodox measures to ward them off.”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-274","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12219,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12219","url_meta":{"origin":274,"position":0},"title":"Free Download: The Materiality of Magic","author":"Chas S. 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