{"id":348,"date":"2005-01-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2005-01-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T05:00:00","slug":"348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The divine with a wet nose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You might not think of southern India as being particularly dog-friendly, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chieftain.com\/national\/1104735600\/1\">this Tamil family<\/a> certainly is now. Read the last paragraph in particular.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebark.com\/\"><em>Bark<\/em> magazine<\/a> puts &#8220;Dog is my copilot&#8221; on the masthead, there is a whiff of irony. Not here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The divine with a wet nose You might not think of southern India as being particularly dog-friendly, but this Tamil family certainly is now. Read the last paragraph in particular. When Bark magazine puts &#8220;Dog is my copilot&#8221; on the masthead, there is a whiff of irony. 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Clifton","date":"March 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Click over to Pagans for Archaeology, where Yewtree interviews Australian Pagan scholar David Waldron, author of Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Study in Local Folklore, about dogs, folklore, and the Pagan revival.I think a key issue for me was that transmission of symbols, images and ideas from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dogs\"","block_context":{"text":"dogs","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=dogs"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=095552377X","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":966,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=966","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":1},"title":"Solo Mountain Solstice","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Sunrise\" in the mountains is a malleable moment. You rise and dress for the -5 F (-20 C). weather, taking a hiking staff and the drum case.You walk the trail up the east ridge, then shoulder through a grove of Gambel oak until you can see the Sun's glow.Start drumming\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Yule\"","block_context":{"text":"Yule","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=yule"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":748,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=748","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":2},"title":"Save a dog&#8211;Vote yes on 44","author":"Chas S. 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