{"id":2529,"date":"2011-04-07T11:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:23:07","slug":"what-indo-europeans-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"What Indo-Europeans Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While eating breakfast, I saw a newspaper ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indo-euro.com\/\">Indo-European<\/a> Sunflower Oil.<\/p>\n<p>All I could think was, shouldn&#8217;t that be <em>Sindhuh-Europe Sawel-bhel Elaia<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I think I was warped by playing the mad professor in Ionesco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lesson\"><em>The Lesson<\/em> <\/a>in high school, with his rants on philology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While eating breakfast, I saw a newspaper ad for Indo-European Sunflower Oil. All I could think was, shouldn&#8217;t that be Sindhuh-Europe Sawel-bhel Elaia? I think I was warped by playing the mad professor in Ionesco&#8217;s The Lesson in high school, with his rants on philology.<\/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":[22],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-EN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5970,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5970","url_meta":{"origin":2529,"position":0},"title":"So You Want to Worship the Old Gods . . .","author":"Chas S. 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Some point during the day, I heard a radio crackle with the message, \"Come up that little ridge and bring fire with you.\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Asia\"","block_context":{"text":"Asia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=asia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2123,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2123","url_meta":{"origin":2529,"position":4},"title":"The Revenants&#8217; Tales and What They Tell Us","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A few key ideas hold the promise of keeping Pagan religions distinct from the people who go around claiming the \"all Truth is one\" etc. (When I hear that, I also hear \"You will be assimilated.\") An obvious one is polytheism. Another is the concept of the multiple soul, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"death\"","block_context":{"text":"death","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=death"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3378,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3378","url_meta":{"origin":2529,"position":5},"title":"Is This Ancient Image an Etruscan Mother Goddess?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Archaeologists have found an ancient Etruscan pottery fragment that appears to be the oldest-known image of a woman giving birth. The piece of a large pottery vessel might be 2,600 years old. The Etruscan civilization dominated northern Italy before being eventually absorbed by Rome. 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