{"id":794,"date":"2007-01-18T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2007-01-18T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T22:35:00","slug":"my-catholicwiccanasatru-ex-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"My Catholic\/Wiccan\/Asatru ex-girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Billings shares some religious\/magickal paths personified as ex-girlfriends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thelema and the OTO<\/strong><\/p>\n

The freaky ex-girlfriend who likes her sex kinky, her parties wild, and her drugs. She goes clubbing, dresses all in black, and has the razor scars on the wrists to show that she\u2019s serious. She has a lot of interesting ideas but draws the wrong sort of crowd because of her reputation when she was young. These days she\u2019s more likely to want to go to Mass and do a bake sale but the expectations of youth are hard to live down, and she secretly revels in it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Billings shares some religious\/magickal paths personified as ex-girlfriends. Thelema and the OTO The freaky ex-girlfriend who likes her sex kinky, her parties wild, and her drugs. She goes clubbing, dresses all in black, and has the razor scars on the wrists to show that she\u2019s serious. 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