{"id":3472,"date":"2011-11-09T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:14:17","slug":"not-my-ancient-pagan-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"Not *My* Ancient Pagan Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right, you have put away the skulls, bats, and dishes for your ancestors, all the while humming, “It’s the Most Magickal Time of the Year.”<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s time to think about Yule! And to ponder, is this custom an ancient Pagan survival?<\/a> (Slightly NSFW.)<\/p>\n

As for your pre-Christian traditional Yule tree, Obama wants to tax it.<\/a><\/del>\u00a0 Suddenly embarrassed, the White House has “delayed” the tax. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right, you have put away the skulls, bats, and dishes for your ancestors, all the while humming, “It’s the Most Magickal Time of the Year.” It’s time to think about Yule! And to ponder, is this custom an ancient Pagan survival? (Slightly NSFW.) As for your pre-Christian traditional Yule tree, Obama wants to tax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,22,43],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-samhain","tag-weirdness","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-U0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1100,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1100","url_meta":{"origin":3472,"position":0},"title":"Yule and its Songs","author":"Chas S. 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