{"id":2735,"date":"2016-10-31T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2016-10-31T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:47:39","slug":"three-centuries-later-witch-trials-remain-uncomfortably-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Three centuries later, witch trials remain uncomfortably relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150721Bishop.jpg\" alt=\"150721Bishop\" width=\"260\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150721Bishop.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150721Bishop-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Oct. 31, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorical truths emerge only with time, after which they are ours, particularly on Halloween, to mangle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly on, the Salem witch trials disappeared from the record; a hush descended over 1692 for generations. \u2018The People of Salem Do Not Like to Be Questioned in Regard to the Witchery Affair\u2019 reads a Philadelphia Inquirer headline \u2013 from 1895. It fell to others to resurrect the \u2018witchcraft,\u2019 as the South did during the debate over slavery. Then came Arthur Miller, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1379\">who made off with the story<\/a>,\u00a0or at least a version of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lush mythology grew up around the trials, one that reassured us that these events took place in a remote land in no way resembling our own. In truth, they are deeply woven into the American fabric. They are more relevant than the lore suggests \u2013 our earliest instance of conspiratorial fantasy and reckless demonizing, of the brand of national distemper that grips us in anxious times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/five-myths-about-the-salem-witch-trials\/2016\/10\/27\/62abd0cc-9ad1-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html?utm_term=.cbc467d2a3cf\" target=\"_blank\">Five Myths about the Salem witch trials<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stacy_Schiff\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy Schiff<\/a>\u00a0in the Washington Post (Oct. 30)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fifteen years ago today<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1498\">Massachusetts officially exonerates<\/a>\u00a0five women hanged as witches in Salem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 31, 2016 \u201cHistorical truths emerge only with time, after which they are ours, particularly on Halloween, to mangle. \u201cEarly on, the Salem witch trials disappeared from the record; a hush descended over 1692 for generations. \u2018The People of Salem Do Not Like to Be Questioned in Regard to the Witchery Affair\u2019 reads a Philadelphia [&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-2735","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\/2735","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=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}