{"id":889,"date":"2007-06-09T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2007-06-09T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T14:48:00","slug":"hunting-the-good-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Hunting the Good Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caroline Tully, an Australian Witch, has started blogging with an emphasis on artistic expressions about Pagan religion and remembering the dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under the photo of a Black Sabbath album cover that she found inspirational once upon a time, she writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I may as well go on and say that I think my identification as a Witch also has a lot to do with musing on visual imagery, including art. We Witches do love our real-world ritual objects and our “be here now” physicality in the exercise of our religion, don’t we?<\/em><\/p>\n

I concur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caroline Tully, an Australian Witch, has started blogging with an emphasis on artistic expressions about Pagan religion and remembering the dead. Under the photo of a Black Sabbath album cover that she found inspirational once upon a time, she writes: I may as well go on and say that I think my identification as a […]<\/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":[6,29],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-el","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=56","url_meta":{"origin":889,"position":0},"title":"Barbie, the Hot Pagan Witch","author":"Chas S. 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