{"id":1274,"date":"2009-12-24T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-12-24T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:51:00","slug":"io-satvrnalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"IO SATVRNALIA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Return of the Sun, miraculous menorahs (officially over, yes), Baby Jesus\u2014it’s all good.<\/p>\n

Did you make your reservation at Kentucky Fried Chicken yet<\/a>?<\/p>\n

And Io, Saturnalia<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(graphic lifted from another Pagan blogger)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Return of the Sun, miraculous menorahs (officially over, yes), Baby Jesus\u2014it’s all good. Did you make your reservation at Kentucky Fried Chicken yet? And Io, Saturnalia! (graphic lifted from another Pagan blogger)<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ky","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1156,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1156","url_meta":{"origin":1274,"position":0},"title":"A Hymn to Extrication and Destruction","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In my role as a volunteer fireman in this little hamlet, I went to a \"vehicle extrication\" class today in a nearby town. That meant learning to use the \"Jaws of Life\" (firemen just say \"splitter\") and other hydraulic tools for ripping apart vehicles in order to remove injured occupants.In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"magick\"","block_context":{"text":"magick","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=magick"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10107,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10107","url_meta":{"origin":1274,"position":1},"title":"Io Saturnalia!","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In \"humor\"","block_context":{"text":"humor","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=humor"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/starbucks-io-saturnalia.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/starbucks-io-saturnalia.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/starbucks-io-saturnalia.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/starbucks-io-saturnalia.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6935,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6935","url_meta":{"origin":1274,"position":2},"title":"Saturnalia with the Romans","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We are in the midst of Saturnalia, so consider this article by Classics scholar Mary Beard on \"Five Things the Romans Did at Christmas.\" The headline was just to grab you, because she begins, \"OK, the Romans didn\u2019t actually have Christmas. And even Christian Romans didn\u2019t celebrate Jesus\u2019 birthday on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Rome\"","block_context":{"text":"Rome","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=rome"},"img":{"alt_text":"io-saturnalia","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/io-saturnalia.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}