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Maybe I am getting out of higher education at a good time<\/a>. Community colleges might still be hiring, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe I am getting out of higher education at a good time. Community colleges might still be hiring, though.<\/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":[54],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2555,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2555","url_meta":{"origin":1017,"position":0},"title":"“Unearthing Matriarchy”","author":"Chas S. 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The director of composition dumps a file folder of papers on me, which I am to read to help her evaluate one of the part-time faculty.I feel for the instructor, a \"freeway flier,\" someone teaching part-time for miserable Colorado wages\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1105,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1105","url_meta":{"origin":1017,"position":3},"title":"Pagans are not a Community nor a Tribe — Not Yet","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The lively discussion at The Wild Hunt over \"moving on from Paganism\" should put an end to the notion that Pagans constitute a \"tribe\" or a \"community.\"Not yet, anyway. 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