{"id":53140,"date":"2016-01-26T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/voodoos_heyday_long_passed_but_gullah_tradition_continues_to_bewitch_in_bea\/"},"modified":"2016-01-26T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T22:22:24","slug":"voodoos_heyday_long_passed_but_gullah_tradition_continues_to_bewitch_in_bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53140","title":{"rendered":"Voodoo\u2019s heyday long passed, but Gullah tradition continues to bewitch in Beaufort County, SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a good root doctor these days in Beaufort County is as hard as finding Dr. Buzzard\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>This once-isolated land of hexes and haints now leans more on Walmart than voodoo.<\/p>\n<p>But it hasn\u2019t always been so.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-20th century, even the county sheriff was a witch doctor. J. Ed McTeer Sr. specialized in removing spells cast by Dr. Buzzard, Dr. Eagle, Dr. Bug and perhaps as many as 20 other local root doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: http:\/\/www.islandpacket.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article56610278.html#storylink=cpy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandpacket.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article56610278.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a good root doctor these days in Beaufort County is as hard as finding Dr. Buzzard\u2019s grave. This once-isolated land of hexes and haints now leans more on Walmart than voodoo. But it hasn\u2019t always been so. In the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53140\">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":[39,42,54,133,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53140","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=53140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}