{"id":1231,"date":"2009-10-21T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2009-10-21T03:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T03:18:00","slug":"its-that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"It’s That Time of Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for the cameras and notepads? It’s the time of year when journalists notice the Pagans! <\/a><\/p>\n

ReligionLink is on the job with story ideas. At least they admit that they are recycling their resource list from 2004. (No, that’s not my telephone number anymore, sorry.)<\/p>\n

“Oh, my” indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for the cameras and notepads? It’s the time of year when journalists notice the Pagans! ReligionLink is on the job with story ideas. At least they admit that they are recycling their resource list from 2004. (No, that’s not my telephone number anymore, sorry.) “Oh, my” indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[10,66,5,69,6],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-halloween","tag-paganism","tag-samhain","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4954,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4954","url_meta":{"origin":1231,"position":0},"title":"The Year the Calendars Ended","author":"Chas S. 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