{"id":23225,"date":"2025-09-02T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23225"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:10:11","slug":"book-43-of-52-witchcraft-for-wayward-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/book-43-of-52-witchcraft-for-wayward-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 43 (of 52) &#8211; Witchcraft For Wayward Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23226\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/waywardgirls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23226\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/waywardgirls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/waywardgirls.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/waywardgirls-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grady Jendrix &#8211; Witchcraft for Wayward Girls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the late 1960s, unwed pregnant girls are sent to Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, hidden away until they give birth and are forced to give up their babies for adoption.\u00a0 When four of the girls sneak out into the woods behind the home, they encounter a witch who promises to give them their life&#8217;s desire if they swear fealty to her.\u00a0 When it comes time to pay up, however, they can&#8217;t live up to their commitments, causing the witch and her cover to go on the offensive.<\/p>\n<p><em>Witchcraft for Wayward Girls<\/em> is the latest from Grady Hendrix.\u00a0 He uses the trappings of the horror genre to look at the true horrors placed upon these girls prior to the passage of Roe v Wade, stripped of their ability to choose what happened to their baby and sent away from any and all support systems because of their so-called shame.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing what he comes up with next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1960s, unwed pregnant girls are sent to Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, hidden away until they give birth and are forced to give up their babies for adoption.\u00a0 When four of the girls sneak out into the woods behind the home, they encounter a witch who promises to give them 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":[39],"tags":[9787,12132,12131],"class_list":["post-23225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-grady-hendrix","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-witchcraft-for-wayward-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23227,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions\/23227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}