{"id":6716,"date":"2014-09-21T18:18:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2014-09-21T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:18:33","slug":"new-publishing-opportunity-in-euro-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6716","title":{"rendered":"New Publishing Opportunity in Euro-Paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headline: “Genetic analysis reveals present-day Europeans descended from at least 3, not 2, groups of ancient humans<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

So how before someone writes a book on “Ancient North Eurasian” shamanic Paganism?\u00a0 Campfire, drum, bears . . . take it away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headline: “Genetic analysis reveals present-day Europeans descended from at least 3, not 2, groups of ancient humans.” So how before someone writes a book on “Ancient North Eurasian” shamanic Paganism?\u00a0 Campfire, drum, bears . . . take it away.<\/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":[131,5,11,12],"class_list":["post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-paganism","tag-shamanism","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Kk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5853,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5853","url_meta":{"origin":6716,"position":0},"title":"Defining Paganism (2)","author":"Chas S. 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