{"id":1192,"date":"2009-08-17T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2009-08-17T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:40:00","slug":"the-political-pagan-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"The Political Pagan blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Strmiska has a started a new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoliticalpagan.blogspot.com\/\">The Political Pagan<\/a>. Stop by and visit. He does not mention it, but he is also on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxjournals.com\/ojs\/index.php\/pom\/index\"> The Pomegranate&#8217;s editorial board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Strmiska has a started a new blog, The Political Pagan. Stop by and visit. 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Contemporary Pagan Studies is an interdisciplinary unit, and we welcome submissions of theoretically and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SanAntonioWelcomeHeader-633x260-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SanAntonioWelcomeHeader-633x260-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SanAntonioWelcomeHeader-633x260-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2324,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2324","url_meta":{"origin":1192,"position":2},"title":"Quick Review: &#8216;Pagan Metal&#8217;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"M. and I watched Pagan Metal: A Documentary (dir. 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