{"id":401,"date":"2011-01-07T06:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-01-07T06:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:13:18","slug":"withces-for-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Witches For Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Romanian-witches-protest-00711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Romanian-witches-protest-00711-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Romanian-witches-protest\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-404\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romanian Witch Protest<\/figcaption><\/figure>Have you heard about the witches?<\/p>\n<p>The ones in Romania?<\/p>\n<p>The ones who orchestrated a group assembly yesterday to place curses on the government?<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in Romanian history the witches, warlocks, fortune tellers, astrologers, dragon tamers, Samantha Stevens (yes I am that old), and Harry Potter are being required to register their professions and pay taxes. They will now be included in the Romanian labor codes and will pay 16% income tax and make contributions to health and pension programs, like other self-employed people. (Do registered witches charge more than unregistered ones?)<\/p>\n<p>This is being done in an attempt to bring into alignment the sun, moon, stars, and failing economy. I can only guess the practitioners of these cursing arts must be doing a bang up business if taxing their combined professions would right a failing economy.<\/p>\n<p>Superstitions are no laughing matter in Romania <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about the witches? The ones in Romania? The ones who orchestrated a group assembly yesterday to place curses on the government? For the first time in Romanian history the witches, warlocks, fortune tellers, astrologers, dragon tamers, Samantha Stevens (yes I am that old), and Harry Potter are being required to register their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-the-land-of-confusion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}