{"id":480,"date":"2005-08-05T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2005-08-05T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T00:59:00","slug":"480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Banned at Borders?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was trying to track down a report that The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening<\/em>, by high-profile Wiccan lawyer<\/a> and priestess Phyllis Curott<\/a>, had been yanked from bookstores after pressure from social-conservative Christians such as these<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I cannot find anything so far to substantiate that rumor.<\/p>\n

What is probably worse, in her social sphere, is getting the snarky treatment from Veiled Conceit<\/a>, a blog devoted to sarcastic deconstruction of New York Times<\/em> wedding announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banned at Borders? I was trying to track down a report that The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening, by high-profile Wiccan lawyer and priestess Phyllis Curott, had been yanked from bookstores after pressure from social-conservative Christians such as these. I cannot find anything so far to substantiate that rumor. What is probably […]<\/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-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-480","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11666,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11666","url_meta":{"origin":480,"position":0},"title":"The Morrigan, Therapy, and Female Self-Narration on Social Media","author":"Chas S. 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