{"id":429,"date":"2005-05-04T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2005-05-04T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T17:32:00","slug":"429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Student paper gets it right<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Orion<\/em>, published at California State University-Chico, published an article on Wicca<\/a> that gets the history right–no “unbroken tradition from the Stone Age” stuff.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s because they interviewed one of the leading scholars<\/a>, who is right there on their campus.<\/p>\n

And don’t miss the hard-hitting article on campus squirrels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Student paper gets it right The Orion, published at California State University-Chico, published an article on Wicca that gets the history right–no “unbroken tradition from the Stone Age” stuff. Perhaps that’s because they interviewed one of the leading scholars, who is right there on their campus. 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