{"id":1472,"date":"2010-10-24T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2010-10-24T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T12:34:27","slug":"how-to-be-a-community-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-community-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a community witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Door, Witchcraft Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/31413272@N00\/2245179598\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2040\/2245179598_7bffca754a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading Pratchett&#8217;s latest novel &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Shall_Wear_Midnight\">I Shall Wear Midnight<\/a> (a Tiffany Aching story), I was reminded that witching is mostly a matter of stopping to think and look around and <em>observe<\/em> what people are actually doing. Witches in his stories call this <em>headology &#8211; <strong>headology<\/strong>, a sort of folk-psychology which can be summed up as &#8220;if people\u00a0<\/em><em>think<\/em> you&#8217;re a witch, you might as well be one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 13.0px Optima} p.p2 {margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 13.0px Optima; min-height: 15.0px} -->Which brings us to modern day with all the experts in soft fields like community management or social media marketing. They\u2019re both fields where two things happen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have to know how to stop and observe what all the people around you are doing and understand their reasons for doing these things.<\/li>\n<li>Since you\u2019re mostly not producing things, the only way for others to accept you as a <em>witch <\/em>of this field is by you acting like one in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After you understand this, everything else is easy. Oh, and you&#8217;ll have to figure out what your <em>pointy hat is<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Pratchett&#8217;s latest novel &#8211; I Shall Wear Midnight (a Tiffany Aching story), I was reminded that witching is mostly a matter of stopping to think and look around and observe what people are actually doing. Witches in his stories call this headology &#8211; headology, a sort of folk-psychology which can be summed up as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[907,910,909,911,908],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-granny-weatherwax","tag-headology","tag-i-shall-wear-midnight","tag-pointy-hat","tag-witchcraft"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}