{"id":1916,"date":"2006-10-31T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2006-10-31T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:09:07","slug":"why-do-people-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/why-do-people-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People <i>Desire<\/i> Victimhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe that is not a fair statement. But when I read articles <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061030\/us_nm\/life_witches_dc\">like this<\/a> I kind of roll my eyes.<br \/>\nGod help me, I should be more patient and understanding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In between psychic readings and running a shop that sells everything a witch needs to get started, Cabot is mailing letters to civic leaders across Massachusetts warning them of the legal perils of portraying witches as grisly old hags.<br \/>\nPosters hung on government property of witches as haggard women on broomsticks or as green-faced outcasts with an evil glint in their eye could lead to defamation lawsuits by witches protesting what they see as violations of their civil rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I think of civil rights, I think of segregated schools, rest rooms, and forcing people to sit on the back of the bus. In current times, I think of forcing people to go against their religion by supplying birth control in Catholic owned businesses.<br \/>\nBut Halloween images of witches? In all honesty, I would be somewhat appalled by stereotypical images of a certain ethnicity plastered everywhere. On the other hand, as a Catholic, heck, I&#8217;m used to it. All I have to do is turn on <i>Law and Order<\/i>. We&#8217;re all used to it.<br \/>\nSeriously, it never occured to me to stereotype real live Wiccans. My day is just way to busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, maybe that is not a fair statement. But when I read articles like this I kind of roll my eyes. God help me, I should be more patient and understanding. In between psychic readings and running a shop that sells everything a witch needs to get started, Cabot is mailing letters to civic leaders&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/why-do-people-d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Do People <i>Desire<\/i> Victimhood?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}