{"id":3093,"date":"2011-08-18T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2011-08-18T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T03:19:54","slug":"no-not-that-horned-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"No, Not That Horned God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate your Christian faith with a touch of that ol’ Pagan mystique: the “Holy Shed<\/a>.” \"The<\/a><\/p>\n

That is “shed” in the sense of naturally shed deer or elk antlers, which some people like to collect for decor projects or for sale to be powdered for Asian men who have not yet discovered Viagra.<\/p>\n

And here I grew up with the perception that Christianity stopped at the edge of town. With your cast-resin antler cross, it does not have to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate your Christian faith with a touch of that ol’ Pagan mystique: the “Holy Shed.” That is “shed” in the sense of naturally shed deer or elk antlers, which some people like to collect for decor projects or for sale to be powdered for Asian men who have not yet discovered Viagra. 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Ministers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4840,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4840","url_meta":{"origin":3093,"position":4},"title":"Nazi ‘Neo-Pagans’ and Their War on Christmas","author":"Chas S. 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I do not know if that is the case here.)Via Instapundit.","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}