{"id":1077,"date":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","slug":"off-to-aar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Off to AAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I post this from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/reviews.php?id=11299\"> Wireworks<\/a> cafe in Pueblo, partway through our journey to the train station.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I have everything I need for a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarweb.org\/Meetings\/Annual_Meeting\/Current_Meeting\/default.asp\"> successful conference session<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two printouts of my paper, plus copies of the photos that go with it, on both CD and flash drive<\/li>\n<li>registration materials<\/li>\n<li>photos of dead people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Doing a paper on the Day of the Dead at two Southwestern universities, plus attending a Samhain ritual. Too much?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post more as the meeting continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I post this from the Wireworks cafe in Pueblo, partway through our journey to the train station. I hope that I have everything I need for a successful conference session: two printouts of my paper, plus copies of the photos that go with it, on both CD and flash drive registration materials photos of dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[10,35],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-day-of-the-dead"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3354,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3354","url_meta":{"origin":1077,"position":0},"title":"Quick Day of the Dead Instructions\u2014And How Things Change","author":"Chas S. 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Only it was not his translation nor even, precisely, the \"Tibetan Book of the Dead\": Walter Yelling Wentz - it was only as an adult\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"publishing\"","block_context":{"text":"publishing","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=publishing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4147,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4147","url_meta":{"origin":1077,"position":5},"title":"Necrophilia: An Ancient Egyptian Tradition?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This may be the worst sort of environmental determinism, but what is it with Egypt? Is there something in the Nile water? For centuries Egyptian Paganism seemed to function\u2014on one level\u2014as as sort of post office of the dead. 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