{"id":1913,"date":"2010-10-24T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2010-10-24T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T14:57:00","slug":"departed-pagan-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Departed Pagan Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the home page of the Green Egg<\/em> (now free for download), see a list of “departed Pagan pioneers, founders, and elders<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I do not think that Dorothy Clutterbuck belongs there, however. She was the unwitting victim of Gerald Gardner’s Gemini sense of humor, I think. But aside from her, these pioneers deserve to be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the home page of the Green Egg (now free for download), see a list of “departed Pagan pioneers, founders, and elders.” I do not think that Dorothy Clutterbuck belongs there, however. She was the unwitting victim of Gerald Gardner’s Gemini sense of humor, I think. But aside from her, these pioneers deserve to be […]<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,100,5],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-history","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-uR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3718,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3718","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":0},"title":"Survey on Pagan Attitudes toward Elders","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"If you might be considered a Pagan elder, have opinions on who should be considered an elder \u2014 not specific people, but people holding what qualities \u2014 or think that there should or should not be councils of elders, help a researcher by taking this survey.","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":964,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=964","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":1},"title":"Where’s the Wall? I Need to Hit It","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Forgive the melodramatic headline, but I have been grading tests and research papers for about six hours. At least \"the big class\" is done, and what lies ahead will be more pleasant reading--essays by better student writers.So to make up for the lack of blogging, some odds and ends:\u2022 A\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12230,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12230","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":2},"title":"Another Podcast: Ravens at the Crossroads","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I have added another link to the list of Pagan podcasts in the right-hand sidebar: Ravens at the Crossroads, by Mistress Prime and Tyler Matthews, who \"realized the stories of our community, especially of our elders, were being lost and forgotten. 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