{"id":7282,"date":"2015-06-15T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2015-06-15T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:58:48","slug":"review-the-sisterhood-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7282","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8220;The Sisterhood of Night&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMwMHHXuhbI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nPagan film critic Peg Aloi has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/themediawitches\/2015\/06\/review-the-sisterhood-of-nigh\/\">interesting things to say about a new movie, <em>The Sisterhood of Night.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only does it have the traditional element of teenage girls, secrets, and occultism (see, not coincidentally, Salem, Mass., 1692) but there is a social-media element too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The film cleverly allows us to speculate for a bit about the rumor mill\u2019s potential accuracy, and to wonder at social media\u2019s shocking failure as a networking tool\u00a0when one simply decides to stop using it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The movie has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesisterhoodofnight\">a Facebook page too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teenage boys, of course, are never ever interested in this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagan film critic Peg Aloi has interesting things to say about a new movie, The Sisterhood of Night. Not only does it have the traditional element of teenage girls, secrets, and occultism (see, not coincidentally, Salem, Mass., 1692) but there is a social-media element too: The film cleverly allows us to speculate for a bit [&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":[36,29],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Ts","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1482,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1482","url_meta":{"origin":7282,"position":0},"title":"Ten Worst Movies about Witches and Pagans","author":"Chas S. 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A Facebook commenter calls the show \"the kind of CRAP our spiritual community has had to put up with for decades!\" According to the projected TV series'\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"movies\"","block_context":{"text":"movies","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":818,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=818","url_meta":{"origin":7282,"position":4},"title":"Ted Haggard and Elmer Gantry","author":"Chas S. 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