{"id":1190,"date":"2009-08-12T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2009-08-12T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:41:00","slug":"shamanic-images-of-the-altai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Shamanic Images of the Altai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A5AVJFLIo8c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I found this video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paganspace.net\">PaganSpace<\/a> &#8212; evidently it is supposed to evoke the shamanic spirit of<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kazakhstan\"> Kazahkstan<\/a> (since the poster lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Almaty\">Almaty<\/a>). The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altai_Mountains\">Altai <\/a>are a range of mountains in Central Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video on PaganSpace &#8212; evidently it is supposed to evoke the shamanic spirit of Kazahkstan (since the poster lives in Almaty). The Altai are a range of mountains in Central Asia.<\/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":[20,5,11],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-paganism","tag-shamanism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":436,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=436","url_meta":{"origin":1190,"position":0},"title":"Shamanic linksCan shamanism and blogging\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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