{"id":3359,"date":"2011-10-30T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2011-10-30T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:24:54","slug":"the-dangers-of-pagan-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Pagan Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started blogging in 2003, but I had no idea that being a Pagan blogger was the “scariest job on earth<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

On a regular basis you will receive messages claiming someone in the Pagan community is a thief, a pervert, a pedophile, a drug addict, a rapist, a sexual harasser, and even a murderer. In hysterical language you be told of misdeeds so foul that you think you must have misread the e-mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear readers, you are letting me down. No one has denounced anyone to me lately as a pervert, murderer, etc. Where are the evildoers that I may blog about them?<\/p>\n

(Really, don’t bother.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started blogging in 2003, but I had no idea that being a Pagan blogger was the “scariest job on earth.” On a regular basis you will receive messages claiming someone in the Pagan community is a thief, a pervert, a pedophile, a drug addict, a rapist, a sexual harasser, and even a murderer. 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