{"id":1615,"date":"2010-05-10T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:05:04","slug":"passing-of-feraferias-svetlana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Feraferia’s Svetlana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fred and Svetlana of Feraferia in the 1960s.<\/p><\/div>\n

Svetlana Butryn, wife of Fred Adams, founder of the small but influential West Coast Pagan group Feraferia, passed away last Thursday, May 6, after a long period of ill health. She was 75.<\/p>\n

Fred himself died in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feraferia had a “only in Southern California” quality to it, arising partly from the neo-Romantic ethos of raw foods, sunshine, and nudism that took root there as long ago as the 1890s and early 1900s, the era of the “nature boys,” mixed with a looking back to classical Greek religion as a model for its path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Svetlana Butryn, wife of Fred Adams, founder of the small but influential West Coast Pagan group Feraferia, passed away last Thursday, May 6, after a long period of ill health. She was 75. Fred himself died in 2008. Feraferia had a “only in Southern California” quality to it, arising partly from the neo-Romantic ethos of […]<\/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":[75,5],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-q3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1053,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1053","url_meta":{"origin":1615,"position":0},"title":"Passing of Feraferia’s Fred Adams","author":"Chas S. 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