{"id":400,"date":"2005-04-04T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2005-04-04T02:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T02:39:00","slug":"400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof. Synecdoche on graduate school<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking of starting a series of posts about Pagans in academia, mainly because I periodically get these naive questions about &#8220;Where can I major in Pagan Studies?&#8221; (Short answer: almost nowhere, and who would hire you if you did?)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, blogger Professor Synecdoche has a good post <a href=\"http:\/\/profsynecdoche.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/about-grad-school.html\">with basic truths about graduate education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Synecdoche on graduate school I have been thinking of starting a series of posts about Pagans in academia, mainly because I periodically get these naive questions about &#8220;Where can I major in Pagan Studies?&#8221; (Short answer: almost nowhere, and who would hire you if you did?) 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