{"id":3053,"date":"2011-08-15T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2011-08-15T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:28:18","slug":"please-no-nose-wiggling-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Please, No Nose-Wiggling Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bewitched<\/em> is coming back to the small screen<\/a>, but the inside word<\/a> is that it is more about riding Mad Men’s<\/a> <\/em>coattails than making witchcraft seem appealing to a new generation. Follow the link <\/a>to see the intro to the original Bewitched<\/em>, which ran from 1964-1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or go watch How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying<\/a> <\/em>to see a young Robert Morse (Japan-ophile Mr. Cooper of Mad Men<\/em>) if you want the early 1960s as interpreted in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bewitched is coming back to the small screen, but the inside word is that it is more about riding Mad Men’s coattails than making witchcraft seem appealing to a new generation. Follow the link to see the intro to the original Bewitched, which ran from 1964-1972. Or go watch How to Succeed in Business without […]<\/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":[153,29],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-television","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Nf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4345,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4345","url_meta":{"origin":3053,"position":0},"title":"“Season of the Witch”","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"June 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Witchcraft and Magic: North AmericaAs long as I am promoting books that I myself have not had an opportunity to read yet (but will when I can), look for Helen Berger's new anthology from the University of Pennsylvania Press, covering North America in the \"Witchcraft and Magic\" series. You can\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11058,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11058","url_meta":{"origin":3053,"position":2},"title":"Witchcraft Cycles and the Official Witch of LA","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Mankey's Raise the Horns blog (in the sidebar) carries his look back over the previous decade, \"Paganism & Witchcraft in the 2010's.\" I urge you to read it. I would like to add just a little bit of nuance to one passage: Until recently Modern Witchcraft was generally tied\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Mayor-Sam-Yorty-Louise-Huebner-the-Official-Witch-of-Los-Angeles-Portrait.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4927,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4927","url_meta":{"origin":3053,"position":3},"title":"The Basic Split in Pagan Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As I posted earlier, the issue of The Pomegranate now in press has an article about Robert Cochrane, one of the first English witches to use the term \"traditional\" in opposition to Gerald Gardner's Wicca, back in the 1960s. In fact, my own current researches are going to force me\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"Issue 2 of the British newsletter Pentagram, November 1964, price 2s, \"for private circulation only.\"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pentagram2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12291,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12291","url_meta":{"origin":3053,"position":4},"title":"The 1970s, When Witchcraft Sold Skin Mags","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"From The Reprobate, \"Your daily slice of art, culture and social commentary,\" a photographic review of such long-gone late 1960s\u20131970s publications as Witchcraft, Bitchcraft, and Satan, all dedicated to the notion that \"the occult\" was sexy and could sell magazines. 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