{"id":3673,"date":"2011-12-31T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2011-12-31T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T22:44:00","slug":"top-pagan-new-stories-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3673","title":{"rendered":"Top Pagan New Stories of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do visit <em>The Wild Hunt <\/em>and read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildhunt\/2011\/12\/top-ten-pagan-stories-of-2011-part-one.html\">Top Ten Pagan Stories of 2011, Part 1<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildhunt\/2011\/12\/top-ten-pagan-stories-of-2011-part-two.html#disqus_thread\">Part 2<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do visit The Wild Hunt and read &#8220;Top Ten Pagan Stories of 2011, Part 1&#8221; and &#8220;Part 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,5],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Xf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11233,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11233","url_meta":{"origin":3673,"position":0},"title":"Conference on Current Pagan Studies 3: Harper Hall","author":"Chas S. 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