{"id":9269,"date":"2018-04-09T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:03:39","slug":"for-the-friends-of-black-phillip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9269","title":{"rendered":"For the Friends of Black Phillip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYesterday’s post on movies related to Salem witchcraft<\/a> mentioned The VVitch<\/em> and the character of Black Phillip, the billy goat. (His real name is Charlie and he “still gives his director nightmares<\/a>.”)<\/p>\n

There\u00a0 is a billy goat in my magical menagerie too \u2014 not quite the same, but close enough that when I saw this pin and embroidered badge at Nerd Scouts,<\/a> I had to have them.<\/p>\n

Live deliciously!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s post on movies related to Salem witchcraft mentioned The VVitch and the character of Black Phillip, the billy goat. (His real name is Charlie and he “still gives his director nightmares.”) There\u00a0 is a billy goat in my magical menagerie too \u2014 not quite the same, but close enough that when I saw this […]<\/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":[326,325,29],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goats","tag-salem","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2pv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9245,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9245","url_meta":{"origin":9269,"position":0},"title":"Our Salem Film Festival","author":"Chas S. 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