{"id":5350,"date":"2013-03-19T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:01:09","slug":"around-the-pagan-blogosphere-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5350","title":{"rendered":"Around the Pagan Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 At The Used Key Is Always Bright<\/em>, a young boy’s dream of “small gods” intriguingly includes “the god of keys.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ivo Dominguez deals with someone who thinks that His People own the idea of four directions, the elements, etc.<\/a>\u00a0Via Miniver Cheevy, where there is a postscript<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Christopher Penzcak talks about the Mighty Dead<\/a> and the idea that “There is a part of the Inner Planes, the Other World, which is called Witchdom. There you may learn much, if you can contact it. There are spells and chants, dances and music and such woods and streams as delight the hearts of witches.” That came from a “channeling” done by Doreen Valiente in the 1960s; make of it what you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 At The Used Key Is Always Bright, a young boy’s dream of “small gods” intriguingly includes “the god of keys.” \u2022 Ivo Dominguez deals with someone who thinks that His People own the idea of four directions, the elements, etc.\u00a0Via Miniver Cheevy, where there is a postscript. \u2022 Christopher Penzcak talks about the Mighty […]<\/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":[3,5,40,29],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-paganism","tag-polytheism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1oi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2496,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2496","url_meta":{"origin":5350,"position":0},"title":"Another Bright Idea Not Working","author":"Chas S. 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