{"id":287,"date":"2004-10-21T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2004-10-21T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T19:29:00","slug":"287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s that time of year again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Religion Newswriters Association primes journalists everywhere with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionwriters.com\/public\/tips\/101104\/101104a.shtml\">story ideas<\/a> on Wicca.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a school district in Washington state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komotv.com\/stories\/33602.htm\">bans Halloween<\/a> as &#8220;offensive to witches.&#8221; (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joannejacobs.com\/\">Joanne Jacobs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, if &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s Irish on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day,&#8221; as the common saying has it, then what happens on the last day of October, hmm?<\/p>\n<p>Offended? No. Amused at the annual flurry of attention is more like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again The Religion Newswriters Association primes journalists everywhere with story ideas on Wicca. Meanwhile, a school district in Washington state bans Halloween as &#8220;offensive to witches.&#8221; (Thanks to Joanne Jacobs.) Let&#8217;s see, if &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s Irish on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day,&#8221; as the common saying has it, then what happens on the [&hellip;]<\/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-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-287","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}