{"id":180,"date":"2004-05-04T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2004-05-04T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T19:23:00","slug":"180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Wicca and the Navajos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing my uploading of essays and papers to my web site, I have now added one of my favorite pieces of Pagan autobiographical writing, Malcolm Brenner’s “A Witch among the Navajos,”<\/a> which originally appeared in 1998 in Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Far too much Pagan writing is either advice-giving, instructional, fiction, or something else: There is a definite shortage of well-written “creative nonfiction” such as Brenner supplies here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wicca and the Navajos Continuing my uploading of essays and papers to my web site, I have now added one of my favorite pieces of Pagan autobiographical writing, Malcolm Brenner’s “A Witch among the Navajos,” which originally appeared in 1998 in Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. Far too much Pagan writing is […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-180","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":190,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=190","url_meta":{"origin":180,"position":0},"title":"The Pagan Blogosphere If you're\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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