{"id":463,"date":"2005-07-01T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2005-07-01T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:43:00","slug":"463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogroll housekeeping<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deleted:<\/span> A Simpler Way<\/a>, which has not been updated since January, and Kensho Godchaser, now folded into Jay Allen’s other blog, The Zero Boss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Added:<\/span> Red Raven’s Roost<\/a>, a Celtic Reconstructionist blog, and The Marigold Trail<\/a>, the blog of a San Juan Pueblo Indian from northern New Mexico in law school at UNM.<\/p>\n

And under “Academic Life,” I am belatedly adding The Phantom Professor<\/a>, an ironic commentary on teaching at a large private university in a large state to the southeast of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogroll housekeeping Deleted: A Simpler Way, which has not been updated since January, and Kensho Godchaser, now folded into Jay Allen’s other blog, The Zero Boss. Added: Red Raven’s Roost, a Celtic Reconstructionist blog, and The Marigold Trail, the blog of a San Juan Pueblo Indian from northern New Mexico in law school at UNM. 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If any thing, I suspect that it was more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8654,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8654","url_meta":{"origin":463,"position":5},"title":"What Is Wrong with Large-Scale Ritual?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When it comes to large-scale ritual, the traditional Wiccan circle does not scale up well. 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