{"id":10684,"date":"2016-12-02T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2016-12-02T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:13:04","slug":"spirits-say-watch-ouija-origin-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/12\/spirits-say-watch-ouija-origin-evil.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spirits, What Have You to Say?&#8221;: I watch &#8220;Ouija: Origin of Evil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you\u2019re interested in present-day portrayals of Vatican II-era Catholicism, it\u2019s pretty fascinating. If you\u2019re interested in haunted Ouija boards, not so much:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I watched <em>Ouija: Origin of Evil<\/em> last night, and it was a pretty good flick. But I\u2019m still a little confused about the Ouija board\u2019s motivation.<\/p>\n<p>I watched\u00a0the movie\u00a0because of <a href=\"https:\/\/theringer.com\/blumhouse-new-hollywood-success-paranormal-activity-the-purge-74dc38852ac5#.lfp5tfgw4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this article<\/a>\u00a0about Blumhouse, a horror-centered production company making \u201cnuanced dramas about families, class, and morality \u2014 but instead of divorce or dysfunction, they\u2019re typically dealing with possessed children, haunted houses, and manhunting mobs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/spirits-what-have-you-to-say\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re interested in present-day portrayals of Vatican II-era Catholicism, it\u2019s pretty fascinating. If you\u2019re interested in haunted Ouija boards, not so much: I watched Ouija: Origin of Evil last night, and it was a pretty good flick. But I\u2019m still a little confused about the Ouija board\u2019s motivation. I watched\u00a0the movie\u00a0because of this article\u00a0about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[119,30],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-horror","tag-mackerel-snapping-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Spirits, What Have You to Say?&quot;: I watch &quot;Ouija: Origin of Evil&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you&#039;re interested in present-day portrayals of Vatican II-era Catholicism, it&#039;s pretty fascinating. 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