{"id":9310,"date":"2018-04-17T18:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2018-04-18T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T01:11:31","slug":"where-its-h-day-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9310","title":{"rendered":"Where It&#8217;s H-Day Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9311\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/always-halloween.jpg?resize=576%2C642&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/always-halloween.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/always-halloween.jpg?resize=135%2C150&amp;ssl=1 135w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/always-halloween.jpg?resize=269%2C300&amp;ssl=1 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>In some places, people leave Christmas decorations up year-around. In Salem, it&#8217;s a different holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some places, people leave Christmas decorations up year-around. In Salem, it&#8217;s a different holiday.<\/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":[1],"tags":[66,325,29],"class_list":["post-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-salem","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2qa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9456,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9456","url_meta":{"origin":9310,"position":0},"title":"Witchy Cultural Tourists Do Exist","author":"Chas S. 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Ocker\u2019s book A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, Jay Finney, chief marketing officer of the big Peabody Essex Museum, tells Ocker that \u201ccultural tourists\u201d who visit the museum are a different crowd than those who come to Salem for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"art\"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEM-and-witchy-stuff.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9733,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9733","url_meta":{"origin":9310,"position":1},"title":"Salem\u2014It&#8217;s an International Brand","author":"Chas S. 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