{"id":361,"date":"2005-01-25T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2005-01-25T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T23:32:00","slug":"361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Far-seeing Zeus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Pagans wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chick.com\/default.asp\">Chick tracts<\/a>, they might come out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ononion\/1576.html\">like this<\/a>. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/prattle.antipope.org\/\">The Pagan Prattle<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-seeing Zeus If Pagans wrote Chick tracts, they might come out like this. 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On a green meadow at the foot of Mt Olympus, famous in mythical literature as the home of the Zeus and the Hellenic\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10102,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10102","url_meta":{"origin":361,"position":2},"title":"Call for Papers: Digital Paganism and Digital Occultism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For a special issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. My name is Heather Freeman (Professor of Art, UNC Charlotte, USA) and I am seeking research on Digital Paganism \/ Digital Occultism for a future issue of\u00a0The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies.\u00a0 Please see the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"art\"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pom-cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2938,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2938","url_meta":{"origin":361,"position":3},"title":"How to Talk with the Non-Pagan Press","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of Pagan sites are talking about a magickal showdown with some Christian spiritual warriors over the District of Columbia. Jason Pitzl-Waters has the thoroughly hyperlinked details. 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