{"id":717,"date":"2006-09-11T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2006-09-11T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T23:48:00","slug":"drumming-for-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Drumming for peas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the Federal Blogging Act of 2004, often referred to for short as the Reynolds<\/a>–Sullivan<\/a> Act, all bloggers are required to post something about 9\/11\/2001.<\/p>\n

So here is my post.<\/p>\n

Maybe if we had more drumming groups for peas<\/a>, then the more totally whacked-out followers of the Prophet Mohammed (peas be upon him) would not want to kill us all, and our little dogs too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

Speaking magically, I think that rituals “for peace,” just like rituals to “heal the earth,” are doomed to failure, because humans cannot visualize just what “peace” means. Absence of war? Everyone thinks like me? Salvation by the Space Brothers or Jesus? <\/p>\n

Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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