{"id":808,"date":"2007-02-05T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2007-02-05T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T16:47:00","slug":"death-of-a-chief-druid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Chief Druid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>
Tim Sebastion, chief of the Secular Order of Druids in the UK, died on February 1.
He was always in the swirl of controversy around Stonehenge. This site, although dated, gives a feel for how that has gone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His order was formed in 1975 and the acronym was chosen deliberately, or so I have been told. Based on my couple of meetings with Tim (the last in a Bath pub in 2004), it seemed that by appearing to not be totally serious, he was able to be very serious.<\/p>\n

He also held the Bardic Chair of Caer Badon (Bath) after founding a gorsedd (poetic competition) in 1995.<\/p>\n

A ton of British Druid Web sites exist: Here is a sampling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Sebastion, chief of the Secular Order of Druids in the UK, died on February 1.He was always in the swirl of controversy around Stonehenge. This site, although dated, gives a feel for how that has gone. His order was formed in 1975 and the acronym was chosen deliberately, or so I have been told. 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