{"id":424,"date":"2005-05-01T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2005-05-01T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T22:48:00","slug":"424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Out, sugar demons, out!<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of M.’s students at the community college writes in a psychology paper that while she herself is a diabetic, she controls her diabetes “through diet and exorcise.”<\/p>\n

Once again we see that the spellchecker is no substitute for literacy. On the other hand, Ted Haggard could add this to his ministry of spiritual warfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out, sugar demons, out! One of M.’s students at the community college writes in a psychology paper that while she herself is a diabetic, she controls her diabetes “through diet and exorcise.” Once again we see that the spellchecker is no substitute for literacy. On the other hand, Ted Haggard could add this to his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-424","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2748,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2748","url_meta":{"origin":424,"position":0},"title":"Army Appoints Hindu Chaplain (Sort of)","author":"Chas S. 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She was a basset hound-something mix, she was dying of cancer at age\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6631,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6631","url_meta":{"origin":424,"position":2},"title":"Passing of Margot Adler\u2014Will NPR Admit She was Wiccan?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you not on Facebook, this was the announcement of Margot Adler's passing, posted by her son, Alex. Old friends, long time fans, today at 4am Margot breathed easily for the first time in two weeks. Later today, at 10:30am she was pronounced deceased. Her condition had been\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":94,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=94","url_meta":{"origin":424,"position":3},"title":"The invention of 'Goth' style?\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The invention of 'Goth' style? From David Clay Large's Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich, a cultural and political history of the city from the late 1800s through the rise of the Nazi party, comes this description of an avant-garde cabaret, The Eleven Executioners: \"After the opening\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2873,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2873","url_meta":{"origin":424,"position":4},"title":"Starting Over as a Virgin (Or Else)","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was a teenager, I remember hearing some slightly older female friends cracking up over the line, \"Let's go to California and start over again as virgins.\" Only it should be \"Toronto,\" not \"California,\" the reason being that you do not want your Muslim husband to beat you. 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