{"id":377,"date":"2005-02-07T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2005-02-07T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T23:32:00","slug":"377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is marginal now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We Pagan academics struggle with feeling marginal, but as <a href=\"http:\/\/elisabeth.carnell.com\/index2\/2005\/02\/01\">Elizabeth Carnell<\/a> comments, consider how you would feel to be the only person with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinginsanomat.fi\/english\/article\/1101978425335\">doctorate in trolls<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>But no doubt in Finland there are job opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is marginal now? We Pagan academics struggle with feeling marginal, but as Elizabeth Carnell comments, consider how you would feel to be the only person with a doctorate in trolls? But no doubt in Finland there are job opportunities.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-377","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":269,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=269","url_meta":{"origin":377,"position":0},"title":"Peyote progress The Utah Supreme\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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