{"id":8,"date":"2003-04-02T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2003-04-02T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-02T22:32:00","slug":"wiccas-appeal-among-the-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Wicca’s appeal among the young"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wicca’s Wicked Appeal among the Young <\/a><\/p>\n

The Catholic news agency Zenit <\/a>offers this interview with journalist Carlo Climati<\/a>, author of a book called “Young People and Esotericism,” on the growing menace of Wicca. <\/p>\n

Sample quote: “If one wants to succeed in atttracting a girl, one doesn’t have to buy an amulet but give her a bunch of flowers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wicca’s Wicked Appeal among the Young The Catholic news agency Zenit offers this interview with journalist<\/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":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":507,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=507","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":0},"title":"Wicca’s Charm revisited","author":"Chas S. 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