{"id":5257,"date":"2013-02-24T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2013-02-24T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:09:11","slug":"ghost-girls-witchcrap-or-pop-occulture-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Girls: Witchcrap or Pop Occulture Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/embed?video_id=10151450466401182\" height=\"317\" width=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oberon_Zell-Ravenheart\">Oberon Zell<\/a> of the Church of All Worlds is backing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostgirls.tv\/\"> this show<\/a> because he designed some jewelry for the characters.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook commenter calls the show &#8220;the kind of CRAP our spiritual community has had to put up with for decades!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the projected TV series&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostgirls.tv\/about_us.html\">website<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Janet, Crystle, and Tawnya are three attractive girls that share a close-knit sisterhood with a decidedly macabre twist. The girls were drawn together by their penchant for the unusual, supernatural &#8211; all having supernatural abilities themselves, which set them apart from the rest of the ordinary world. The &#8220;Ghost Girls&#8221; enclave is based at a haunted old Victorian house in Southern California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the editor in me is screaming, &#8220;How do you <em>base<\/em> an enclave?&#8221; The &#8220;girls&#8221; themselves might be based in a haunted et cetera.\u00a0 Hello, dictionary please. But with all the hours of cable programming to fill, someone will probably pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>Consider it another link in the<a href=\"http:\/\/wildhunt.org\/2013\/02\/representations-of-the-hollywood-witch-a-beginning.html\"> evolution of the &#8220;Hollywood Witch.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Oberon Zell of the Church of All Worlds is backing this show because he designed some jewelry for the characters. A Facebook commenter calls the show &#8220;the kind of CRAP our spiritual community has had to put up with for decades!&#8221; According to the projected TV series&#8217; website, Janet, Crystle, and Tawnya [&hellip;]<\/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":[36,153,29],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-television","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1mN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4374,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4374","url_meta":{"origin":5257,"position":0},"title":"The Wizard and the &#8220;Reality&#8221; Ghosthunters","author":"Chas S. 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