{"id":2752,"date":"2016-12-05T02:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2016-12-05T02:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T02:23:47","slug":"were-tales-any-taller-in-salem-than-in-edenton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"Were tales any taller in Salem than in Edenton?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161204Schiff200.jpg\" alt=\"161204schiff200\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Dec, 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe testimony [in the Salem witch trials] is full of tall tales, unless you happen to believe \u2013 as one woman confessed, having vowed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth \u2013 that she flew on a stick with her church deacon and two others to a satanic baptism, and that she had, the previous Monday, carried her minister\u2019s specter through the air along with her, having earlier conferred in her orchard with a satanic cat&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Witches-Salem-Stacy-Schiff\/dp\/0316200603\" target=\"_blank\">The Witches: Salem, 1692<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Stacy Schiff (2015)<\/em><\/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>Dec, 4, 2016 \u201cThe testimony [in the Salem witch trials] is full of tall tales, unless you happen to believe \u2013 as one woman confessed, having vowed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth \u2013 that she flew on a stick with her church deacon and two others to a [&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-2752","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\/2752","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=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}