{"id":23,"date":"2003-07-10T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2003-07-10T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T14:43:00","slug":"saddams-goddess-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Saddam’s Goddess Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does Saddam Hussein appear in a Pagan blog? Simple–he or one of his accomplices ripped off the art of Jonathon Bowser<\/a>, who works with images of the feminine divine, to illustrate a novel published over the Iraqi dictator’s name and found in one of his presidential palaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does Saddam Hussein appear in a Pagan blog? Simple–he or one of his accomplices ripped off the art of Jonathon Bowser, who works with images of the feminine divine, to illustrate a novel published over the Iraqi dictator’s name and found in one of his presidential palaces.<\/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":[],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-goddess","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11666,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11666","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":0},"title":"The Morrigan, Therapy, and Female Self-Narration on Social Media","author":"Chas S. 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(After all, one of my favorite novels, The Sea\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"writing\"","block_context":{"text":"writing","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=writing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2409,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2409","url_meta":{"origin":23,"position":4},"title":"On Reading Merlin Stone for the First Time","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Pitzl-Waters posted a notice of the passing of Merlin Stone, \"sculptor and art historian,\" yes, but best known in my circles for her book When God Was a Woman, first published in 1978. 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