{"id":310,"date":"2004-11-27T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2004-11-27T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T00:03:00","slug":"310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pagans in <em>Natural History<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Natural History<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalhistorymag.com\/1104\/1104_selections.html\">reviews two books<\/a> by scholars of Paganism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csuchico.edu\/rs\/faculty\/pike\/\">Sarah Pike<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/anthropology\/faculty.htm\">Sabina Magliocco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagans in Natural History Natural History reviews two books by scholars of Paganism Sarah Pike and Sabina Magliocco.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-310","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":447,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=447","url_meta":{"origin":310,"position":0},"title":"Here's that meme againA New\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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