{"id":940,"date":"2007-10-18T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2007-10-18T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T19:35:00","slug":"witches-a-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Witches, a Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Library Girl offers a chiefly <a href=\"http:\/\/wadleighya.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/halloween-themed-reading-list-1-witches.html\">young-adult reading list on witch fiction.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library Girl offers a chiefly young-adult reading list on witch fiction.<\/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":[29,12],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-witchcraft","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4111,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4111","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":0},"title":"Hanging the Salem Witches was a Good Idea, said the Zu\u00f1is.","author":"Chas S. 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