{"id":2792,"date":"2017-02-03T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:40:52","slug":"satanic-ritual-abuse-a-product-of-its-eras-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2792","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Satanic ritual abuse\u2019: A product of its era\u2019s mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2793\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2793 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170203Yost.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170203Yost.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170203Yost-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the article<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb. 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecall that after the 1970s there ensued a decade of moral panic over child sex abuse \u2013 including so-called satanic ritual abuse. Off-camera in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070047\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Exorcist<\/a>\u00a0[1973], the possessed Regan performed a Black Mass. In a film shot in the 1980s, her role in such satanic proceedings would have been quite opposite. In the mythology of that decade, the child is never a demon; the child is a victim of demons (i.e., pedophiles, satan-worshiping or not).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly, the tales of satanic ritual abuse that roiled the 1980s were nonsense, since discredited \u2013 as fantastical as any account of demonic possession. Yet they were believed, often beyond a reasonable doubt&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cFear of Children: What \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2014\/10\/fear-of-children\" target=\"_blank\">The Exorcist\u2019 Makes Us Confront<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Julia Yost at First Matters (Oct. 31, 2014)<\/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>Feb. 3, 2017 \u201cRecall that after the 1970s there ensued a decade of moral panic over child sex abuse \u2013 including so-called satanic ritual abuse. Off-camera in The Exorcist\u00a0[1973], the possessed Regan performed a Black Mass. In a film shot in the 1980s, her role in such satanic proceedings would have been quite opposite. In [&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-2792","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\/2792","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=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}