{"id":1206,"date":"2009-09-15T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2009-09-15T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T23:53:00","slug":"late-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Late Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pastor Flaten displays a firm grip of the obvious, this week when the sound of grain driers dominates the town and grain cars clank on the railroad tracks. That sermon will just write itself, you betcha.<\/p>\n

The actual harvest\u2014the one that feeds us\u2014is running late, however.<\/a><\/p>\n

All of this is prelude to saying that I am on the road, but more serious blogging will resume in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor Flaten displays a firm grip of the obvious, this week when the sound of grain driers dominates the town and grain cars clank on the railroad tracks. That sermon will just write itself, you betcha. The actual harvest\u2014the one that feeds us\u2014is running late, however. All of this is prelude to saying that I […]<\/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":[10,24,13],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-christianity","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-js","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12453,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12453","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":0},"title":"Wines for Esotericists","author":"Chas S. 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This one, I think, is from Iran: This one comes from the island of Cyprus: And while we're in the mood, let's not forget Whitman McGowan's \"White Folks Was Wild Once Too,\" with video that is NSFW if you work in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dance\"","block_context":{"text":"dance","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=dance"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4517,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4517","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":2},"title":"The Wheel of the Year Slips its Cog…","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":". . . to borrow a phrase from another blogger. This summer has been a tough one, trying to keep the garden alive, always watching for forest fires \u2014 fighting a couple of small ones with the local volunteer fire department. The hummingbirds have been working the feeder hard for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"festivals\"","block_context":{"text":"festivals","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=festivals"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=20","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":3},"title":"Darksome Thirst","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 2, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Darksome Thirst comes advertised as a novel about \"witches and vampires and computers\" by Morven, editor of the Massachusetts-based Pagan journal Harvest during the 1980s and 1990s. You can learn more from the author's website. My copy is on order!","rel":"","context":"In \"writing\"","block_context":{"text":"writing","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=writing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3261,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3261","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":4},"title":"It’s Mabon, so … canta y no llores","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My approach to the eight-festival Pagan calendar works like this: the cross-quarter days are for ritual\u2014be that outdoor bonfires or black candles at midnight. The quarter days\u2014solstices and equinoxes\u2014are for public and communal celebrations: with the whole public, not just with other Pagans. 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