{"id":4184,"date":"2012-04-30T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T23:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:47:13","slug":"how-many-gods-are-there-vote-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4184","title":{"rendered":"How Many Gods Are There? Vote Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be a slow news day, because the Denver Post’s<\/em> daily news poll is about God . . . or Goddess . . . or the Gods.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Hard”\u00a0 polytheism is running at less than 2 percent, so if you can’t vote early, vote often.<\/p>\n

I doubt than anyone is going to do anything useful with the data anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must be a slow news day, because the Denver Post’s daily news poll is about God . . . or Goddess . . . or the Gods. “Hard”\u00a0 polytheism is running at less than 2 percent, so if you can’t vote early, vote often. I doubt than anyone is going to do anything useful […]<\/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":[95,40],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-journalism","tag-polytheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-15u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":845,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=845","url_meta":{"origin":4184,"position":0},"title":"Polytheism at The New Stateman","author":"Chas S. 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From the publisher: Monotheistic assumptions so pervade our culture that even those few people born into polytheist religions (or those who grew up with no religion at all) cannot help but be influenced by them. Polytheology raises questions that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Pagan studies\"","block_context":{"text":"Pagan studies","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=pagan-studies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6555,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6555","url_meta":{"origin":4184,"position":2},"title":"A Meeting of Polytheists","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Vice.com goes among the Dodekatheists, followers of the Olympic gods. Click link for video with English subtitles. 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