{"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&#8217;s Goddess Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does Saddam Hussein appear in a Pagan blog? Simple&#8211;he or one of his accomplices ripped off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathonart.com\/intro.html\">art of Jonathon Bowser<\/a>, who works with images of the feminine divine, to illustrate a novel published over the Iraqi dictator&#8217;s name and found in one of his presidential palaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Saddam Hussein appear in a Pagan blog? 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