{"id":3273,"date":"2011-09-29T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2011-09-29T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:39:21","slug":"a-hit-a-very-palpable-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3273","title":{"rendered":"A Hit, a very Palpable Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just plugged the paper that I am writing on sexuality and contemporary Paganism in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2011\/08\/how-shakespearean-are-you\/\">to the website at this link<\/a>, and it was scored as 77-percent Shakespearean.<\/p>\n<p>Too many words such as &#8220;Wicca&#8221; were not in his extensive vocabulary. Try it with a sample of your own prose.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/odiousandpeculiar.blogspot.com\/\">Odious and Peculiar<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just plugged the paper that I am writing on sexuality and contemporary Paganism in to the website at this link, and it was scored as 77-percent Shakespearean. Too many words such as &#8220;Wicca&#8221; were not in his extensive vocabulary. Try it with a sample of your own prose. (Via Odious and Peculiar.)<\/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":[12],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-QN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2762,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2762","url_meta":{"origin":3273,"position":0},"title":"Word Follies of 1914","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a multiple-choice test. A \"gunsel\" is a. An attractive young woman b. A novice criminal armed with a gun c. A young homosexual man d. An experienced Jewish hit man Answer here. (Some mystery writers get this one wrong.)","rel":"","context":"In \"writing\"","block_context":{"text":"writing","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=writing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2111,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2111","url_meta":{"origin":3273,"position":1},"title":"Arguments without Evidence\u2014or without Ethos?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent a big chunk of yesterday afternoon reviewing a book that purports to prove the existence of a self-conscious, Goddess-worshiping Paganism in 19th-century America. The evidence? An idiosyncratic reading of one writer's literary output, writing that never uses the words \"witch,\" \"Pagan,\" \"fairy,\" \"goddess,\" or anything like that, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"scholarship\"","block_context":{"text":"scholarship","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=scholarship"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5987,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5987","url_meta":{"origin":3273,"position":2},"title":"Good Advice: &#8220;Run Your Own Race&#8221;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I hit bottom the summer I turned 36. Part-way through grad school, I took a break to work as managing editor of an outdoor magazine, Colorado Outdoor Journal. (You've never heard of it. I needed a job.) In May, the publisher pulled the plug on the magazine, but I had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":780,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=780","url_meta":{"origin":3273,"position":3},"title":"Shaman&#8217;s Drum&#8217;s new fundraising","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Timothy White started Shaman's Drum: A Journal of Experiential Shamanism & Spiritual Healing in the mid-1980s, at the same time that Jay Kinney started Gnosis: Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. In fact, I met both publishers on the same evening in San Francisco, at a publishing gathering where they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"publishing\"","block_context":{"text":"publishing","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=publishing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10948,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10948","url_meta":{"origin":3273,"position":4},"title":"Margot Adler&#8217;s Old Radio Station Shuts Down","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Well-known Pagan writer Margot Adler worked for National Public Radio, but she also had a presence at\u00a0 Pacifica's WBAI in New York City, where she hosted a talk show called \"Hour of the Wolf.\" The show continued after her death, but no more: WBAI has shut down. 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