{"id":3178,"date":"2011-08-24T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2011-08-24T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T22:16:36","slug":"the-wild-hunt-gets-some-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Hunt Gets Some Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is nice to see that Jason Pitzl-Waters’ The Wild Hunt<\/em> blog has gotten a major shout-out at Get Religion,<\/em> <\/a>the site for people who wonder why the mainstream media handles religion so ignorantly.<\/p>\n

I predict that as Pagan traditions become more visible, our activities will be covered by the usual motley crew who went to journalism school instead of, y’know, actually learning anything about anything\u2014history, science, economics, politics, religion, you name it.<\/p>\n

Well, good for Mollie Ziegler Hemmingway, <\/a>one religion writer who knows the difference between a Mormon and\u00a0 an evangelical Christian.<\/p>\n

See, blogging is easy. All you have to do is put out good content on an almost-daily basis while writing polite and informed comments at the sites that you hope will notice yours. Nothing to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is nice to see that Jason Pitzl-Waters’ The Wild Hunt blog has gotten a major shout-out at Get Religion, the site for people who wonder why the mainstream media handles religion so ignorantly. I predict that as Pagan traditions become more visible, our activities will be covered by the usual motley crew who went […]<\/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":[10,3,95],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-blogging","tag-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1860,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1860","url_meta":{"origin":3178,"position":0},"title":"Pagans Protest at the Daily Mail (UK)","author":"Chas S. 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That path was not taken, but others have taken it,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=61","url_meta":{"origin":3178,"position":5},"title":"Traditional Medicine versus Addiction","author":"Chas S. 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