{"id":56,"date":"2003-10-29T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:20:10","slug":"barbie-the-hot-pagan-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Barbie, the Hot Pagan Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chasclifton.com\/graphics\/barbie.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>I am in debt to Mark Morford&#8217;s SF Gate column on the latest, must-have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/gate\/archive\/2003\/10\/29\/notes102903.DTL\">Barbie doll.<\/a> (Mattel offers a dark-complexioned version as well.) She would be just right to look down on you and your plushies while you are reading some of Llewellyn Publications&#8217; latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llewellyn.com\/bookstore\/book.php?pn=J391\">teen-witch fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in debt to Mark Morford&#8217;s SF Gate column on the latest, must-have Barbie doll. (Mattel offers a dark-complexioned version as well.) She would be just right to look down on you and your plushies while you are reading some of Llewellyn Publications&#8217; latest teen-witch fiction.<\/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":[10,5,22],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6604,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6604","url_meta":{"origin":56,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Choose How Cute or Evil She Should Be&#8221;","author":"Chas S. 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Put them together, and you have Pagan Studies Barbie?","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":366,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=366","url_meta":{"origin":56,"position":4},"title":"Inanna Descends to the Underworld (Barbie version)","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the S\/M Underworld, and all the characters are Barbie dolls in this version. A fast Internet connection is helpful.","rel":"","context":"In \"sexuality\"","block_context":{"text":"sexuality","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=sexuality"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1152,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1152","url_meta":{"origin":56,"position":5},"title":"Gallimaufry with Confusion","author":"Chas S. 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