{"id":4030,"date":"2012-04-04T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2012-04-04T14:36:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:36:57","slug":"university-courses-that-i-wish-i-could-have-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4030","title":{"rendered":"University Courses that I Wish I Could Have Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropology 666, &#8220;The Anthropology of Shamanism and Occult Experience,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/daily-cardinal\/news\/whitehead-s-research-in-guyana-shaped-life-professor-found-that\/article_0f2aba98-78a4-11e1-8f5a-0019bb2963f4.html\">with Professor Neil Whitehead at Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the exam questions were like and what sort of papers he assigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropology 666, &#8220;The Anthropology of Shamanism and Occult Experience,&#8221; with Professor Neil Whitehead at Wisconsin. 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