“The Southwest Follows Us to Salem & Salem Follows Us Home<\/a>.”<\/p>\nThat has not stopped. Yesterday I stepped into the Goodwill store in Pueblo, Colorado to buy some of their 99\u00a2 wineglasses for daily use. (Wineglasses break.) This shot glass caught my eye instead.<\/p>\n
Trade routes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My April 25th post said, “The Southwest Follows Us to Salem & Salem Follows Us Home.” That has not stopped. Yesterday I stepped into the Goodwill store in Pueblo, Colorado to buy some of their 99\u00a2 wineglasses for daily use. (Wineglasses break.) This shot glass caught my eye instead. Trade routes!<\/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":[103,325,158,29],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-massachusetts","tag-salem","tag-tourism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2tS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9349,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9349","url_meta":{"origin":9540,"position":0},"title":"The Southwest Follows Us to Salem & Salem Follows Us Home","author":"Chas S. 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