{"id":1197,"date":"2009-08-27T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2009-08-27T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T21:15:00","slug":"seeking-a-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"Seeking a goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can understand seeing a goddess in your lover. But this is pushing it too far<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can understand seeing a goddess in your lover. But this is pushing it too far.<\/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":[22],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":712,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=712","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"‘The Goddess comes through’","author":"Chas S. 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