{"id":1016,"date":"2008-05-07T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2008-05-07T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T14:38:00","slug":"gallimaufry-and-the-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry and the iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&para; Metaphysical writer Louise Hay is profiled in the New York Times: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/04\/magazine\/04Hay-t.html\">Queen of the New Age<\/a>.&#8221; (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanstratford.blogspot.com\/\">Jordan Stratford<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&para; I can tell that you are reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/percent-text-read.html\">only 20 percent of my blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&para; Ten years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/lowendmac.com\/ed\/keel\/08tk\/imac-perfect-timing.html\">the look of personal computing changed forever<\/a>. &#8220;As far from the cable-twined tangle of beige boxes as you could imagine, its smooth-as-an-egg blue-and-white all-in-one shape was compelling and futuristic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&para; When I saw Jason&#8217;s post about people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhunt.org\/2008\/05\/as-handfastings-go-mainstream-so-do.html\">choosing to have Pagan weddings for what amount to aesthetic reasons<\/a>, I was reminded of a news article I linked to in 2006 about Westerners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2006\/11\/being-fake-priest-in-japan.html\">performing fake Christian ceremonies in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in our days as active coven leaders (20+ years ago), M. and I did marry a sort-of Pagan American guy and the daughter of a Thai UN official. Her family treated it as an unusual ethnographic spectacle, but we got a great Thai dinner out of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>No, the marriage did not last. I think we are 1 for 3 on handfastings. You had better choose someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&para; Metaphysical writer Louise Hay is profiled in the New York Times: &#8220;Queen of the New Age.&#8221; (Hat tip: Jordan Stratford.) &para; I can tell that you are reading only 20 percent of my blog. &para; Ten years ago, the look of personal computing changed forever. &#8220;As far from the cable-twined tangle of beige boxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,3],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-go","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}