{"id":3221,"date":"2011-08-29T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2011-08-29T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:53:53","slug":"another-blowhard-religious-leader-but-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Another Blowhard Religious Leader, But Pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Bo, the current Arthur Pendragon, “the nom d’\u00e9p\u00e9e<\/em> of deluded old sponge John Rothwell,” holds up a Pagan mirror to religious leaders everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in the long run, the attempt by some British Pagans to play the NAGPRA<\/a>-derived “reburial of the sacred dead” card is going to be a public-relations disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Bo, the current Arthur Pendragon, “the nom d’\u00e9p\u00e9e of deluded old sponge John Rothwell,” holds up a Pagan mirror to religious leaders everywhere. And in the long run, the attempt by some British Pagans to play the NAGPRA-derived “reburial of the sacred dead” card is going to be a public-relations disaster.<\/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":[20,21,5],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-england","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-PX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12050,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12050","url_meta":{"origin":3221,"position":0},"title":"Pagan Studies Call for Papers, American Academy of Religion 2021","author":"Chas S. 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