{"id":331,"date":"2004-12-13T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2004-12-13T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T22:43:00","slug":"331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supremes back UDV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Uniao do Vegetal, a Brazilian-based church that uses entheogens in a way similar to the Native American Church, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnewsblog.com\/9694-High_Court_Allows_N.M._Church_to_Use_Tea.html\">won an important battle in the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supremes back UDV The Uniao do Vegetal, a Brazilian-based church that uses entheogens in a way similar to the Native American Church, has won an important battle in the Supreme Court.<\/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-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-331","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5670,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5670","url_meta":{"origin":331,"position":0},"title":"Is the Church of England Desperate or Just Confused about Paganism?","author":"Chas S. 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