{"id":692,"date":"2006-07-26T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2006-07-26T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T20:33:00","slug":"a-fight-song-for-procrastinating-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"A Fight Song for (Procrastinating) Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via the Nielsen Hayden blog<\/a>, a fight song for writers<\/a>, to the tune of “The British Grenadier(s)<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But do you know what other tune fits that rousing 18th-century fife-and-drum number<\/a>? Catherine Madsen’s Pagan standard, “Heretic Heart<\/a>.” In fact, I always hear it my head to that tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via the Nielsen Hayden blog, a fight song for writers, to the tune of “The British Grenadier(s).” But do you know what other tune fits that rousing 18th-century fife-and-drum number? Catherine Madsen’s Pagan standard, “Heretic Heart.” In fact, I always hear it my head to that tune.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ba","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6474,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6474","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":0},"title":"Sampling the Pagan Blogosphere","author":"Chas S. 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French seismologists have probably noticed disturbances near Toulouse caused by\u00a0 medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas spinning in his grave after having been\u00a0 memorialized to the tune of \"Venus.\" The rap-style delivery of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"history\"","block_context":{"text":"history","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=history"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6345,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6345","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":3},"title":"Animist Blog Carnival \u2014\u00a0Dreams","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The March Animist Blog Carnival, on the theme of dreams, is hosted at Pray to the Moon. We have a more modest collection of writings for this month. But, being an avid dreamer, I am not at all surprised. 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