{"id":416,"date":"2005-04-21T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2005-04-21T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T15:16:00","slug":"416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Yeah, Right” department<\/strong><\/p>\n

A news release<\/a> for an online witchcraft school trots out the interview<\/a> that I gave to Religion Link a few months back.<\/p>\n

Whoever wrote the release was pretty sloppy. Phyllis Curott, for instance, is a lawyer not a “researcher.” And straight-line demographic projections are generally meaningless. Then there is “visionaire.” Is that supposed to sound slicker than the usual “visionary”? I think the only vision here is “get rich quick with the World Wide Web.” Of course, if you have to divide the money among your “staff of over 300,” there will not be much cash to go around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Yeah, Right” department A news release for an online witchcraft school trots out the interview that I gave to Religion Link a few months back. Whoever wrote the release was pretty sloppy. Phyllis Curott, for instance, is a lawyer not a “researcher.” And straight-line demographic projections are generally meaningless. Then there is “visionaire.” Is […]<\/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-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-416","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":451,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=451","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":0},"title":"6-6-06It really does not matter\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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