{"id":629,"date":"2006-03-07T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2006-03-07T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T02:42:00","slug":"629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing on walls<\/strong><\/p>\n

I briefly considered live-blogging the “Wiccan” episode<\/a> of Wife Swap<\/em><\/a>. But if I did, it would be all “‘What a jerk,’ M. muttered” and “‘Oh! My! God!’ M. shrieked.”<\/p>\n

So I’ll leave that to others. But I predict a new meme: instead of Wiccans sacrificing goats, it will be that Wiccans encourage their kids to write and draw on the walls.<\/p>\n

Where do they find these people? And why are some people<\/a> pleased?<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Jason Pitzl-Waters learned 10 things about Wicca<\/a> from watching the show.<\/p>\n

Tags: Wicca<\/a>, Wife Swap<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing on walls I briefly considered live-blogging the “Wiccan” episode of Wife Swap. But if I did, it would be all “‘What a jerk,’ M. muttered” and “‘Oh! My! God!’ M. shrieked.” So I’ll leave that to others. But I predict a new meme: instead of Wiccans sacrificing goats, it will be that Wiccans encourage […]<\/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-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-629","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":362,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=362","url_meta":{"origin":629,"position":0},"title":"Wiccans in our midst, once\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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