{"id":616,"date":"2006-02-16T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2006-02-16T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T19:22:00","slug":"616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Herding cats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All my Wiccan friends like to talk about how organizing Witches &#8220;is like herding cats.&#8221; Did that line start with Terry Pratchett?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/citycomfortsblog.typepad.com\/cities\/files\/eds-cat-herders.mov\"><em>it can be done<\/em><\/a>. (Movie, 3MB)<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/citycomfortsblog.typepad.com\/\">City Comforts<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/herding+cats\" rel=\"tag\">Herding cats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herding cats All my Wiccan friends like to talk about how organizing Witches &#8220;is like herding cats.&#8221; Did that line start with Terry Pratchett? Anyway, it can be done. 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