{"id":3364,"date":"2011-10-31T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2011-10-31T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:21:39","slug":"ghost-tales-of-cripple-creek-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Tales of Cripple Creek, &c"},"content":{"rendered":"

At my other blog, a recollection of my one venture into collecting ghost stories.<\/a><\/p>\n

And a couple of incidents that did not make it into the book, mainly because they were “too personal”\u00a0 and not connected with other people’s experience.<\/p>\n

And a CNN story on how for “growing ranks of pagans [sic<\/em>], October 31 means a lot more than Halloween<\/a>.” Y’think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At my other blog, a recollection of my one venture into collecting ghost stories. And a couple of incidents that did not make it into the book, mainly because they were “too personal”\u00a0 and not connected with other people’s experience. And a CNN story on how for “growing ranks of pagans [sic], October 31 means […]<\/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":[97,66],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ghosts","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Sg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1242,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1242","url_meta":{"origin":3364,"position":0},"title":"Fate Magazine Reanimated","author":"Chas S. 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[S]such movements are never about a pure \u201creturn to the past\u201d but are, rather, an attempt to \u201crescue\u201d the past and re-deploy it to create a more satisfying present and future.The Ghost Dance\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1239,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1239","url_meta":{"origin":3364,"position":2},"title":"Dining above the Dead","author":"Chas S. 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Bloomberg News columnist Amity Shlaes reacts against its \"paganism.\" She is pleased to see the violence of \"Mischief Night\" fading but continues, \" Unmask Halloween, however, and you\u2019ll also find some disconcerting features. Christmas and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8839,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8839","url_meta":{"origin":3364,"position":5},"title":"Pentagram Pizza: The Second Generation","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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