{"id":426,"date":"2005-05-03T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2005-05-03T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T18:09:00","slug":"426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Devadasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not just the Pagans talking about sacred sex<\/a>–and its potential spinoff, sacred prostitution.<\/p>\n

Here is an articulate Hindu practitioner<\/a>. (Notice her shrine page<\/a>.) She blogs as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devadasi It’s not just the Pagans talking about sacred sex–and its potential spinoff, sacred prostitution. Here is an articulate Hindu practitioner. (Notice her shrine page.) She blogs as well.<\/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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-426","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":467,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=467","url_meta":{"origin":426,"position":0},"title":"Sacred sitesSome evocative photos of\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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