{"id":45464,"date":"2014-08-04T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_pagans_wonder_witch_way_for_the_next_generation_as_new_age_trend_ages\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:01:00","slug":"rns_pagans_wonder_witch_way_for_the_next_generation_as_new_age_trend_ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45464","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Pagans wonder \u201d\u02dcwitch\u2019 way for the next generation as New Age trend ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-generation pagans \u201d\u201d those whose parents were converts to pagan spirituality \u201d\u201d are a lot like their peers in other faiths. They often do spirituality their own way. Or not at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorn-to-it pagans just are who we are,\u201d\u009d said Angela Roberts Reeder, 43, whose parents were involved in ceremonial magic when she was young.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Reeder said she might continue the tradition by joining a public celebration for the first harvest festival of Lughnasa, also called Lammas, at a Washington, D.C., temple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, it\u2019s so much easier to be openly pagan than 20 or 30 years ago\u201d\u009d when converts often faced strong disapproval by family and society when they came out of the \u201cbroom closet,\u201d\u009d so to speak, Reeder said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/08\/01\/pagan-wiccan-witch-religion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-generation pagans \u201d\u201d those whose parents were converts to pagan spirituality \u201d\u201d are a lot like their peers in other faiths. They often do spirituality their own way. Or not at all. \u201cBorn-to-it pagans just are who we are,\u201d\u009d said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45464\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,101,133,98,155,108,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-wicca-paganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}