{"id":7829,"date":"2003-10-26T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/10\/26\/they-need-a-spell-checker\/"},"modified":"2003-10-26T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T19:33:18","slug":"they-need-a-spell-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/10\/they-need-a-spell-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"They need a spell checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">After reading Libertarian mayoral candidate Carlton Harvey&#8217;s contention that a spell was placed over Charlotte in the wake of a ritualistic dance 15 years ago, Mecklenburg County Libertarian Party Chairman Christopher Cole called The Observer to set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;Although I&#8217;m a pagan, the Libertarian Party does not believe in spells,&#8221; said Cole, also an at-large candidate for Charlotte City Council. &#8220;I just wanted to make that clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Harvey believes the ills that have befallen the city&#8217;s poor stem from energy released during a dance honoring Ramses the Great. The 3,000-year-old Egyptian pharaoh&#8217;s coffin lid and other artifacts came to Charlotte in 1988 as part of an exhibit at the Mint Museum.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/charlotte\/news\/politics\/7107101.htm?ERIGHTS=-4897357144178004021charlotte::chad@libertyteeth.com&#038;KRD_RM=8ooowqrowvtpvqpvvqwooooooo|C|Y\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Libertarian mayoral candidate Carlton Harvey&#8217;s contention that a spell was placed over Charlotte in the wake of a ritualistic dance 15 years ago, Mecklenburg County Libertarian Party Chairman&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}