{"id":5930,"date":"2013-08-22T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2013-08-22T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:58:44","slug":"paganism-coming-in-from-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5930","title":{"rendered":"Paganism Coming in from the Cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"

British SF writer Liz Williams <\/a>explores the social position of “paganism” (yeah, the Brits can’t find the shift key) at The Guardian<\/em> and asks if we are coming in from the cold.<\/a><\/p>\n

In essence, Pagans are muddling through, what with our tolerance for eccentricity, etc.<\/p>\n

(And if we are, who is “Control<\/a>“?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British SF writer Liz Williams explores the social position of “paganism” (yeah, the Brits can’t find the shift key) at The Guardian and asks if we are coming in from the cold. In essence, Pagans are muddling through, what with our tolerance for eccentricity, etc. (And if we are, who is “Control“?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,95,5],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britain","tag-journalism","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1xE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14218,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14218","url_meta":{"origin":5930,"position":0},"title":"Upcoming Zoom with Robin Douglas, Sasha Chaitow","author":"Chas S. 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