{"id":2171,"date":"2010-12-16T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2010-12-16T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:07:00","slug":"in-the-land-of-pluto-and-mammon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2171","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In the Land of Pluto and Mammon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gus diZerega writes a<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/12\/las-vegas--in-the-realm-of-pluto-and-mammon.html#more\"> Pagan analysis of Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus diZerega writes a Pagan analysis of Las Vegas.<\/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":[10,26],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-z1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=78","url_meta":{"origin":2171,"position":0},"title":"Strictly Forbidden","author":"Chas S. 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I am not going to weigh in on Z Budapest, etc. I was not there. But I was reading a post on Religion Bulletin the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1271","url_meta":{"origin":2171,"position":2},"title":"Our &#8216;Open-Source&#8217; Religion","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paganism as an open-source religion. 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Gus diZerega, who is now blogging at BeliefNet, takes on that attitude in his latest post, \"A Pagan View on Sacred Authority.\"Fundamentally we are an oral and experiential tradition. We Wiccans\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":1295,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1295","url_meta":{"origin":2171,"position":4},"title":"Nature Religion at the Air Force Academy","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Air Force Academy chapel will add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions during a dedication ceremony scheduled to be held at the circle March 10.Gus diZerega notes it too.Considering some of the previous church-and-state issues at the academy, this is major news.Hmm. 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