{"id":1368,"date":"2003-08-01T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T20:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/08\/01\/alleged-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2003-08-01T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T20:10:50","slug":"alleged-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/08\/01\/alleged-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiestamart.com\/\">Fiesta<\/a> is always entertaining. There&#8217;s just so much weird stuff there. On our most recent expedition, Gwen and I noticed a large display of various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicwicca.com\/files\/disccndl.htm\">luck candles<\/a>. Some with images of saints, some with images of Pancho Villa or other unidentifiable secular figures, but most explicitly promising some kind of specific effect, like <strong>JOB<\/strong>. I noticed one that read<br \/>\n<strong>ALLEGED SPELL BREAK<\/strong><br \/>\nLeaving aside snarky observations of the ambiguous reference&#8211;is it the spell that is alleged, or the breaking of it&#8211;you&#8217;ve got to laugh at the legalistic ass-covering implied by that weasel-word. Seriously: is someone going to burn the candle and then sue the maker because whatever spell it was supposed to break had not been broken? I guess stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n<p>When we got to the checkout line, we were behind a couple of young women buying some of these candles (along with various good-luck oils), apparently in earnest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Fiesta is always entertaining. There&#8217;s just so much weird stuff there. On our most recent expedition, Gwen and I noticed a large display of various luck candles. 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