{"id":15,"date":"2003-05-30T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:14:18","slug":"the-cold-breath-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The cold breath of history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working all week on Her Hidden Children<\/i>, my book on the early decades of the American Pagan movement, part of the AltaMira Press Pagan Studies series<\/a>. I’ve written history before, but somehow, writing about events in which I participated makes me feel at death’s door. I turn for inspiration to my beau ideal of a dignified old age, William S. Burroughs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working all week on Her Hidden Children, my book on the early decades of the American Pagan movement, part of the AltaMira Press Pagan Studies series. I’ve written history before, but somehow, writing about events in which I participated makes me feel at death’s door. I turn for inspiration to my beau ideal of a […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=819","url_meta":{"origin":15,"position":0},"title":"Pagan fiction-writing contest","author":"Chas S. 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