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Looking forward to this event <\/a>a lot. It should fortify me for the hard business of a confrontation with a certain publisher’s editorial director.<\/p>\n

And keep an eye on Rik Garrett’s Occult Chicago <\/a><\/em>blog<\/a>. Why don’t you start one for your town?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking forward to this event a lot. It should fortify me for the hard business of a confrontation with a certain publisher’s editorial director. And keep an eye on Rik Garrett’s Occult Chicago blog. Why don’t you start one for your town?<\/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":[184,89,39],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-esotericism","tag-occultism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1dz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4718,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4718","url_meta":{"origin":4685,"position":0},"title":"A Day and a Night in Occult Chicago","author":"Chas S. 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