{"id":8581,"date":"2017-05-18T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2017-05-18T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T18:47:09","slug":"a-haitian-take-on-the-rider-waite-tarot-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8581","title":{"rendered":"A Haitian Take on the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nine of Cups\u2014photo by Alice Smeets.<\/p><\/div>\n

Members of a Haitian artists’ group are re-creating the Tarot designs of Pamela Coleman Smith, otherwise known as the Rider-Waite Deck. <\/a><\/p>\n

Photographed by Alice Smeets, they are calling it the Ghetto Tarot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They have lots of machetes to substitute for swords. Information on crowd-funding and purchase here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of a Haitian artists’ group are re-creating the Tarot designs of Pamela Coleman Smith, otherwise known as the Rider-Waite Deck. Photographed by Alice Smeets, they are calling it the Ghetto Tarot. They have lots of machetes to substitute for swords. Information on crowd-funding and purchase here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[297,78,159],"class_list":["post-8581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-haiti","tag-photography","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2ep","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3251,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3251","url_meta":{"origin":8581,"position":0},"title":"A Different A.E. 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