{"id":3232,"date":"2011-09-02T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:52:57","slug":"five-childhood-archetypes-you-dont-see-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"Five Childhood Archetypes You Don&#8217;t See in the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cracked<\/em>, now Cracked.com, is better now than when I was in the snarky 13-year-old demographic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-important-childhood-archetypes-movies-overlooked\/\">Consider this article<\/a>. Sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This wasn&#8217;t a normal, here&#8217;s-my-little-kid-arsenal-that-I-keep-under-the-bed-in-case-of-ninja-attack; the Psychopath had real, honest to God weapons, and nobody knows where or how he got them. He owned swords, small caliber pistols and knives &#8212; oh, so many knives. He would happily explain why he needed each one &#8212; here&#8217;s a skinning knife, this one&#8217;s a deboner (tee hee), this here is a Bowie, better for slashing, and that&#8217;s a stiletto, mostly for stabbing &#8212; but there was only ever one real reason: His dad died in the army and his mom couldn&#8217;t afford therapy. Or maybe she just drank, or maybe it was his older brother that died; totaled his Trans-Am in a drag-racing accident. There were logical reasons for his behavior, but somehow, looking in Mickey&#8217;s eyes, you just kind of knew that he was born a little off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracked, now Cracked.com, is better now than when I was in the snarky 13-year-old demographic. Consider this article. Sample: This wasn&#8217;t a normal, here&#8217;s-my-little-kid-arsenal-that-I-keep-under-the-bed-in-case-of-ninja-attack; the Psychopath had real, honest to God weapons, and nobody knows where or how he got them. He owned swords, small caliber pistols and knives &#8212; oh, so many knives. 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Clifton","date":"April 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I have owned three athames in my life \u2014 or more precisely two athames plus a new knife that may well become one. There is a story in here of changing Craft practice. 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Clifton","date":"May 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 At Fay's Forge you may buy \"knives, swords, and do castings from the Celtic, migration, Anglo Saxon, and Norse cultures.\" Support your local shieldmaiden. \u2022 Probably it would be more accurate to say that the planned Black Mass terrifies some Christians in Oklahoma. And before you dump on Oklahoma,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d2isyty7gbnm74.cloudfront.net\/unsafe\/646x646\/https%3A\/\/square-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/files\/503128fa04013403b87b1865a268b66a\/original.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3302,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3302","url_meta":{"origin":3232,"position":4},"title":"What Was Ancient Roman Childhood?","author":"Chas S. 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