{"id":158,"date":"2007-10-29T17:46:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2007-10-29T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T22:50:15","slug":"a-spell-for-democracy-encourage-the-debaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/a-spell-for-democracy-encourage-the-debaters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spell for Democracy: Encourage the Debaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night will be another Democratic debate and I&#8217;m sure there will be another Republican one soon as well. Let&#8217;s try watching the debates and using our magical skills to literally en-courage all the candidates to be open and honest about their opinions instead of calculating and timid. What&#8217;s more, let&#8217;s en-courage the media masters to ask tough questions before, during, and after the debates.<\/p>\n<p>Simple, ethical, of benefit to the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I&#8217;ve noticed that &#8220;live&#8221; television pictures don&#8217;t make very good magical links (possibly because of the time delays), so I recommend using photographs and other physical objects associated with the people being targeted. It&#8217;s easy to download digital photos from candidate and media websites, though an old-fashioned part of me whispers that low-tech chemical photos work better.<\/p>\n<p><center><!--adsense#ffrb--><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night will be another Democratic debate and I&#8217;m sure there will be another Republican one soon as well. Let&#8217;s try watching the debates and using our magical skills to literally en-courage all the candidates to be open and honest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/a-spell-for-democracy-encourage-the-debaters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-magic","category-politicalcultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}