{"id":1515,"date":"2015-10-11T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2016-07-03T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T19:45:22","slug":"shame-links-edenton-with-other-ritual-abuse-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Shame links Edenton with other &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/151011Shewan.jpg\" alt=\"151011Shewan\" width=\"260\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/151011Shewan.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/151011Shewan-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Oct. 11, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSatanism lacks a (Jim) Jones or (David) Koresh. Satanism has no Jonestown, no Waco, no Kool-Aid, no casual point of reference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThis is because Satanic cults, as imagined in popular culture, do not exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cStill, some places across the country \u2013 West Memphis, Arkansas; Manhattan Beach, California; Edenton, North Carolina; Austin, Texas \u2013 belong to a brotherhood of cities united not by the stunned, silent grief of a tragedy like Waco\u2019s, but by the shame of having left innocent families\u2019 lives in ruin in the fervent pursuit of an imaginary evil&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe \u2018Satanic Panic\u2019 of the 1980s and early \u201990s was arguably even more frightening than a typical cult precisely because of this lack of a central figure or place; anybody could have been involved, and nobody was above suspicion&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/books-and-culture\/make-a-cross-with-your-fingers-its-the-satanic-panic?utm_source=Pacific%20Standard%20Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=9918f7e0f5-daily-rss-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_a4fd1bcb7e-9918f7e0f5-80497445\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Conviction of Things Not Seen<\/em><\/a><em>: The Uniquely American Myth of Satanic Cults\u201d\u00a0by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151001011921\/https:\/twitter.com\/danshewan\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dan Shewan<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0at Pacific Standard (Oct. 8)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 11, 2015 \u201cSatanism lacks a (Jim) Jones or (David) Koresh. Satanism has no Jonestown, no Waco, no Kool-Aid, no casual point of reference. \u201cThis is because Satanic cults, as imagined in popular culture, do not exist. \u201cStill, some places across the country \u2013 West Memphis, Arkansas; Manhattan Beach, California; Edenton, North Carolina; Austin, Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}