{"id":1076,"date":"2008-10-29T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2008-10-29T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T02:50:00","slug":"spinning-flaming-pentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Flaming Pentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer Dianne Sylvan blogs on her early Pagan days<\/a> — books, groups, Marion Zimmer Bradley …<\/p>\n

But my favorite paragraph was this one:<\/p>\n

Good god, Pagan websites used to suck. Remember MIDI files of Enya and spinning flaming pentacles? Black star-flecked background with violent purple lettering in 20 point font? Remember when cut-and-pasting Scott Cunningham was all you had to do to make your Geocities site popular? <\/span><\/p>\n

Oh yeah. But I think I still have a folder of flaming-torch and spinning-pentacle GIF files somewhere on my hard drive. Do you think they might ever become retro-cool?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer Dianne Sylvan blogs on her early Pagan days — books, groups, Marion Zimmer Bradley … But my favorite paragraph was this one: Good god, Pagan websites used to suck. Remember MIDI files of Enya and spinning flaming pentacles? Black star-flecked background with violent purple lettering in 20 point font? Remember when cut-and-pasting Scott Cunningham […]<\/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":[12],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":810,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=810","url_meta":{"origin":1076,"position":0},"title":"The Invisible College online magazine","author":"Chas S. 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