{"id":9733,"date":"2018-08-17T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2018-08-17T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:53:55","slug":"salem-its-an-international-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9733","title":{"rendered":"Salem\u2014It’s an International Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo from the Salem Witch Store & Coffee page on Facebook.<\/p><\/div>\n

On August 3, 2018 Jason Mankey posted his list of the “25 Most Influential Living Pagans<\/a>” on his blog\u2014a good list, but slanted toward the English-speaking world (the “Anglosphere”).<\/p>\n

On August 10, Jaime Gir\u00f3nes responded at The Wild Hunt<\/em> with “The 15 Most Influential Pagans in M\u00e9xico<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I read it with interest, but I broke into laughter at his mention of Casa Salem Witch Store & Coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wrote all those posts last spring and summer about Salem, <\/a>and I thought I had said everything I had to say, but I was wrong.<\/p>\n

Salem\u2014it’s an international<\/em> brand for witches. \u00a1Es la verdad!<\/em><\/p>\n

John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and all the other victims of 1692 (now numbered among the Mighty Dead, Christians though they were<\/a>) also gave their lives that there might be specialty coffees in the Colonia Narvarte district of Mexico City.<\/p>\n

But turnabout is fair play. As I mentioned, Aztec-style coffee will soon be on sale in Salem, Mass.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 3, 2018 Jason Mankey posted his list of the “25 Most Influential Living Pagans” on his blog\u2014a good list, but slanted toward the English-speaking world (the “Anglosphere”). On August 10, Jaime Gir\u00f3nes responded at The Wild Hunt with “The 15 Most Influential Pagans in M\u00e9xico.” I read it with interest, but I broke […]<\/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":[343,41,325],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coffee","tag-mexico","tag-salem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2wZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11816,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11816","url_meta":{"origin":9733,"position":0},"title":"Call for Papers: Pagans and Museums","author":"Chas S. 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