{"id":10146,"date":"2018-12-25T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2018-12-25T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T15:37:15","slug":"your-pagan-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10146","title":{"rendered":"Your Pagan Cousin . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10147 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/your-pagan-cousin.jpg?resize=625%2C882&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/your-pagan-cousin.jpg?w=680&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/your-pagan-cousin.jpg?resize=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/your-pagan-cousin.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be right for my family, however, the goats would have to be replaced with German shepherd dogs. You all have a very merry . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be right for my family, however, the goats would have to be replaced with German shepherd dogs. You all have a very merry . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,43],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dogs","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2DE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":506,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=506","url_meta":{"origin":10146,"position":0},"title":"What about the dogs (cats,\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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Not in Muslim areas, where having any dog apparently makes you worth killing.From Thailand, for instance:Buddhist monks have been beheaded, Buddhist teachers slain, and leaflets distributed around Buddhist villages warning that raising dogs and drinking alcohol are offensive to Muslims.That makes me\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Islam\"","block_context":{"text":"Islam","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=islam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1322,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1322","url_meta":{"origin":10146,"position":2},"title":"Pagans, Folklore, and Dogs","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Click over to Pagans for Archaeology, where Yewtree interviews Australian Pagan scholar David Waldron, author of Shock! 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