{"id":8109,"date":"2016-06-19T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T14:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2016-06-19T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T14:49:34","slug":"still-enchanted-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8109","title":{"rendered":"Still Enchanted After All These Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enchantments’ owner, Stacy Rapp. (The Guardian).<\/p><\/div>\n

The Guardian<\/em>, a British newspaper, profiles Enchantments in Manhattan,\u00a0 which “after 34 years in business in the East Village, with the recession and the rising rents of gentrification claiming so many small businesses . . . might make anyone believe in magic.”<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>. (Thanks to Mama Fauna<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian, a British newspaper, profiles Enchantments in Manhattan,\u00a0 which “after 34 years in business in the East Village, with the recession and the rising rents of gentrification claiming so many small businesses . . . might make anyone believe in magic.” Read the whole thing. 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Science reporting in the daily press is sometimes sensationalized, and,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Canada\"","block_context":{"text":"Canada","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=canada"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5930,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5930","url_meta":{"origin":8109,"position":4},"title":"Paganism Coming in from the Cold?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"British SF writer Liz Williams explores the social position of \"paganism\" (yeah, the Brits can't find the shift key) at The Guardian and asks if we are coming in from the cold. 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