{"id":7531,"date":"2018-02-24T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2018-02-24T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:48:09","slug":"employment-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7531","title":{"rendered":"Employment opportunity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/loonies.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\">Italy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/20180223\/vatican-exorcism-training-courses-demand-triples-italy?utm_source=rnb&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">still struggling<\/a> with a shortage of exorcists, so people with a knack for spewing nonsense with an air of gravitas might want to look into it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> The Vatican has had to set up exorcism training courses to cope with demand after the number of requests for their services tripled in Italy over the space of a few years.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Palilla blamed the rise in demand on <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">a growing number of people seeking the services of fortune tellers and Tarot readers. Such practices &#8220;open the door to the devil and to possession<\/span>&#8220;, he claimed. However, he noted that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">many cases were not actually related to demonic possession, but to spiritual or psychological problems<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Priests, fortune tellers, and Tarot readers are all in the same business, of course &#8212; peddling the idea that they have access to special cosmic knowledge that can be used to align your life with the Mysterious Forces Which Rule Our Universe.<\/p>\n<p>And I love the remark that, sometimes, the matter is not that a sulfurous demon has taken up residence in your vitals, but merely a psychological problem.  That&#8217;s a good one: It lends an air of medical expertise to the scam, and demotes actual professionals, without the possibility of objective testing.  I repeat: It&#8217;s the exact same business as a carnival fortune teller, but with a far more clever execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy is still struggling with a shortage of exorcists, so people with a knack for spewing nonsense with an air of gravitas might want to look into it. The Vatican has had to set up exorcism training courses to cope &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}