{"id":254,"date":"2004-09-01T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2004-09-01T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T16:59:00","slug":"254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Greek Pagans in the Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Web site of the Supreme Council of the Gentile Hellenes, a Greek Reconstructionist Pagan group in Greece, has posted video clips<\/a> of a NBC news feature about Greek Pagans–tied to the Olympics coverage, of course. (The compressed clips total about 30 megabytes.) <\/p>\n

Coverage includes an Orthodox priest saying that Greeks can’t go back to idol-worshiping and footage of a vandalized Athens bookstore that sold Pagan books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greek Pagans in the Sun The Web site of the Supreme Council of the Gentile Hellenes, a Greek Reconstructionist Pagan group in Greece, has posted video clips of a NBC news feature about Greek Pagans–tied to the Olympics coverage, of course. (The compressed clips total about 30 megabytes.) 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