{"id":822,"date":"2007-02-14T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2007-02-14T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T19:28:00","slug":"a-revelation-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"A Revelation on Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when a confirmed Valentine’s Day-hater comes across a heart-shaped red candle? Dianne Sylvan tells the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jason Pitzl-Waters supplies the historical background<\/a>–and it’s not the version that you usually hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happens when a confirmed Valentine’s Day-hater comes across a heart-shaped red candle? Dianne Sylvan tells the story. Meanwhile, Jason Pitzl-Waters supplies the historical background–and it’s not the version that you usually hear.<\/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":[5,29],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-dg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":119,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=119","url_meta":{"origin":822,"position":0},"title":"Saint Valentine . . .\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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Who knows?In fact \"red items\" are a problem.So if I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Islam\"","block_context":{"text":"Islam","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=islam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3317,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3317","url_meta":{"origin":822,"position":4},"title":"Does Halloween Fill a “Spiritual Vacuum”?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Halloween season\" keeps starting sooner, and its economic impact increases. Not everyone is pleased. Bloomberg News columnist Amity Shlaes reacts against its \"paganism.\" She is pleased to see the violence of \"Mischief Night\" fading but continues, \" Unmask Halloween, however, and you\u2019ll also find some disconcerting features. 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