{"id":3504,"date":"2011-11-22T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2011-11-22T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:31:12","slug":"in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3504","title":{"rendered":"In ‘The City’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My dogs would not fit into a backpack. They are not city dogs.<\/p><\/div>\n

M. and I are about to leave San Francisco after the American Academy of Religion annual meeting After four and a half days of sessions and meetings and breakfast meetings and receptions and in-the-bar sessions and restaurant meals and hurried conversations in corridors ending with an exchange of business cards and a promise to be in touch, I am just brain-dead.<\/p>\n

The Contemporary Pagan Studies Group is looking healthy though.<\/p>\n

And the noise. Is there some San Francisco ordinance against using sound-absorbent materials in restaurants? Do they cause cancer? Everything seems to be so acoustically “hard” everywhere: stone and painted plaster and mirrors plus the clatter of dishes and glassware\u2014and then you play recorded music.<\/p>\n

Jason Pitzl-Waters has been blogging some of the sessions too, and he will be home before I am, so go there for now<\/a>. Check back here on the weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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