{"id":1142,"date":"2009-04-16T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2009-04-16T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T02:40:00","slug":"a-boy-and-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"A Boy and his Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Pitzl-Waters blogs on the PanGaia-newWitch merger<\/a>, a sign of the times.<\/p>\n

I knew the announcement was coming but decided to respect the publisher’s embargo, something that I prided myself on not<\/em> doing back when I was a reporter in a two-newspaper city (which now feels like saying “back when I rode for the Pony Express.”)<\/p>\n

For those of you who read the newest–and last–PanGaia<\/em> and the article “The Brightest Lights in Our Sky: Today’s Most Influential Pagans,” let me say that I am humbled to be included.<\/p>\n

And the “friend” in the photo is Jack. Chesador’s Hardscrabble Jack, to use his full name, which no one ever does. He will, however, answer to “Jack–yes, you, damn it–do you see any other Chessie <\/a>named Jack?”<\/p>\n

Today was his thirteenth birthday, and M. and I toasted him with champagne at dinner. <\/p>\n

In about two weeks, I will be at the Florida Pagan Gathering<\/a>, where I am scheduled to give a couple of talks, which prospect is fairly terrifying. Must write, must write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Pitzl-Waters blogs on the PanGaia-newWitch merger, a sign of the times. I knew the announcement was coming but decided to respect the publisher’s embargo, something that I prided myself on not doing back when I was a reporter in a two-newspaper city (which now feels like saying “back when I rode for the Pony […]<\/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":[5,7,12],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-publishing","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-iq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":987,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=987","url_meta":{"origin":1142,"position":0},"title":"The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction","author":"Chas S. 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