{"id":186,"date":"2004-05-12T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2004-05-12T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T15:13:00","slug":"186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Read ‘The Policeman’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The creation of the blogosphere has given us new, unofficial ways of getting information. We can watch the television news about the fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, for instance, and then read one Iraqi’s personal response to it in a blog like Riverbend’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For another “behind the walls” perspective, this time on our loyal ally Saudi Arabia, visit The Religious Policeman<\/a>. (No, that’s not his picture at upper right.) His take on life in the non-magic kingdom is a useful antidote to all the official coziness between the House of Bush and the House of Saud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read ‘The Policeman’ The creation of the blogosphere has given us new, unofficial ways of getting information. We can watch the television news about the fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, for instance, and then read one Iraqi’s personal response to it in a blog like Riverbend’s. 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The Religious Policeman (a Saudi Arab himself) sarcastically notes that the \"Muslim Offense Level\" has been raised.It's time to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":483,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=483","url_meta":{"origin":186,"position":5},"title":"Apples and Honey","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 6, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though it was billed as a horror film, and even though no one whom I knew ever endorsed the ending, the 1973 movie The Wicker Man still inspired many of us who were then in the Pagan movement. 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