{"id":4954,"date":"2013-01-03T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2013-01-03T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T01:11:40","slug":"the-year-the-calendars-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4954","title":{"rendered":"The Year the Calendars Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was 1 January 2013 was some kind of unrecognized cultural watershed, like “The Year Frenchmen Stopped Wearing Berets” or something?<\/p>\n

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Image from the “Year and a Day” calendar.<\/p><\/div>\n

I took my 2012 Reed College<\/a> alumni association calendar off the wall and realized that I had nothing to replace it with \u2014 not one free calendar.<\/p>\n

Not another from Reed, nor Trout Unlimited<\/a>, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation<\/a>, nor any other organization. Maybe I have not been sending them enough money, preferring to donate to local and state-level causes this year. Or maybe this is some spin-off from the over-hyped 12-21-2012 apocalypse.<\/p>\n

Despite all the electronic stuff, iCal and whatnot, I still like to be able to look up and see the month at a glance (What day is the 22nd?) without opening an app.<\/p>\n

M. had picked up a free calendar at Natural Grocers<\/a> down in Pueblo, but it hangs in the kitchen, where she can clip the monthly discount coupon.<\/p>\n

So I am “buying Pagan,” ordering this year’s Gerald B. Gardner “Year and A Day” calendar,<\/a> featuring historic photos of Craft figures and a list of Pagan festivals from different cultures in case you need an excuse to lift a glass in honor of Janus, Hathor, or the Vietnamese Parade of the Unicorns. (Parade of the unicorns?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was 1 January 2013 was some kind of unrecognized cultural watershed, like “The Year Frenchmen Stopped Wearing Berets” or something? I took my 2012 Reed College alumni association calendar off the wall and realized that I had nothing to replace it with \u2014 not one free calendar. 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