{"id":484,"date":"2005-08-06T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2005-08-06T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T20:54:00","slug":"484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

What she said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunfell<\/a>, posting at The Juggler, wields her Giant Hammer of Paradigm Busting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Unity” is another delusion that should be thrown out with PLPT [Perfect Love and Perfect Trust]. We are happily individual, with our individual Circles and practices. Anyone who seeks to unify the community is doomed to fail.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why do people make such a fuss over “unity,” when so often it just means “Do it my way”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What she said Sunfell, posting at The Juggler, wields her Giant Hammer of Paradigm Busting: Unity” is another delusion that should be thrown out with PLPT [Perfect Love and Perfect Trust]. We are happily individual, with our individual Circles and practices. Anyone who seeks to unify the community is doomed to fail. Why do people […]<\/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-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-484","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":771,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=771","url_meta":{"origin":484,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry","author":"Chas S. 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