{"id":10298,"date":"2019-03-14T15:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10298"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:12:53","slug":"patrick-pagans-and-party-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10298","title":{"rendered":"“Patrick, Pagans and Party Animals”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the title of a documentary about St. Patrick, his era, and the growth of St. Patrick’s Day as a festival, but I am blocked from embedding it here, so watch it on Vimeo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the title of a documentary about St. Patrick, his era, and the growth of St. Patrick’s Day as a festival, but I am blocked from embedding it here, so watch it on Vimeo.<\/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":[1],"tags":[24,127,50,5,244],"class_list":["post-10298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity","tag-festivals","tag-ireland","tag-paganism","tag-spring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2G6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13588,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13588","url_meta":{"origin":10298,"position":0},"title":"“Patrick, Pagans and Party Animals”","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A screenshot from Patrick, Pagans and Party Animals, a video about the saint and the explosion of the secular holiday of St. Patrick's Day. Jenny Butler, a Pagan-studies scholar from University College Cork, appears at 3:00 and elsewhere to speak up for the \"Pagan\" dimension of the story. Requires free\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Catholicism\"","block_context":{"text":"Catholicism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=catholicism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/party-aniamsl-300x204.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2467,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2467","url_meta":{"origin":10298,"position":1},"title":"Gallimaufry at Ostara","author":"Chas S. 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