{"id":1023,"date":"2008-05-16T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2008-05-16T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:28:00","slug":"a-day-for-desk-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"A Day for Desk Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a damp, grey day here on Hardscrabble Creek, with the temperature struggling to climb out of the 40s F. It&#8217;s a good day to be indoors editing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxjournals.com\/ojs\/index.php\/POM\"><em>Pomegranate<\/em><\/a> articles. Were the weather warm and sunny, I would want to be doing chores outdoors&#8211;all the little jobs that built up over the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some links:<\/p>\n<p>&#038;para: Articles on Pagan infiltration of Quaker meetings and other creeping Paganism from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2008\/aprilweb-only\/118-11.0.html?start=1\">Christianty Today<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernreformation.org\/default.php?page=articledisplay&#038;var1=ArtRead&#038;var2=933&#038;var3=main&#038;var4=Home\">Modern Reformation<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/quakerpagan.blogspot.com\/\">Cat Chapin-Bishop<\/a>, who is quoted in the former, being one of the infiltrators.<\/p>\n<p>&para; Beyond mere <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steampunk#Steampunk_as_an_object_style\">steampunk<\/a>: Building a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7391593.stm\">Victorian computer<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirabilis.ca\">Mirabilis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&para; Bablestone posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/babelstone.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/throng-of-fifty-warriors-routed-by.html\">the difficulties of deciphering Ogham inscriptions<\/a>. What looked like a description of a battle might in fact be a simple grave marker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a damp, grey day here on Hardscrabble Creek, with the temperature struggling to climb out of the 40s F. It&#8217;s a good day to be indoors editing Pomegranate articles. Were the weather warm and sunny, I would want to be doing chores outdoors&#8211;all the little jobs that built up over the winter. 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