{"id":8151,"date":"2016-07-27T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2016-07-27T19:39:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T01:39:41","slug":"in-praise-of-harvest-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8151","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Harvest Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some (Northern Hemisphere) Harvest\/Lammas celebrations, only not called that.<\/p>\n<p>This one, I think, is from Iran:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8151-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scythe-dance.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scythe-dance.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/scythe-dance.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>This one comes from the island of Cyprus:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j1-QiTjzfnY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re in the mood, let&#8217;s not forget Whitman McGowan&#8217;s &#8220;White Folks Was Wild Once Too,&#8221; with video that is NSFW if you work in a monotheistic or cultural-marxist environment:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=ebf_1216313878\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget &#8220;John Barleycorn&#8221;!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93mv8LPtmro\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some (Northern Hemisphere) Harvest\/Lammas celebrations, only not called that. This one, I think, is from Iran: This one comes from the island of Cyprus: And while we&#8217;re in the mood, let&#8217;s not forget Whitman McGowan&#8217;s &#8220;White Folks Was Wild Once Too,&#8221; with video that is NSFW if you work in a monotheistic or cultural-marxist environment: [&hellip;]<\/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":[91,63],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dance","tag-lammas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-27t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1747,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1747","url_meta":{"origin":8151,"position":0},"title":"What I Do Instead of Blogging","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Lammas, according to my authoritative source, fell on Saturday by the solar calendar, so M. and I were only a day early when we celebrated our own wild harvest. Lammas (or whatever you want to call it) does not seem like a highly ritualistic holiday\u2014certainly not one on which you\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7368,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7368","url_meta":{"origin":8151,"position":1},"title":"Lammas, Wild Harvest, and &#8220;the Notch&#8221;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many of the Pagan bloggers are putting up their \"Happy Lammas\/Lughnasad\" posts. My archaeoastronomical friends who study mysterious ancient solar alignments point out that \"real\" Lammas is still six days away. But there is \"the notch.\" In 1986, when I moved to this part of Colorado, a friend told me,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"nibbled bolete","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nibbled-bolete.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nibbled-bolete.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nibbled-bolete.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":698,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=698","url_meta":{"origin":8151,"position":2},"title":"The corner of the year","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"When is Lammas?Predictably, Lammas\/Lughnasadh postings popped up on Pagan e-lists and blogs on the 1st of August. But that is just what the calendar says. Astronomically, according to the online astronomical calculator, it comes at 1541 hours GMT on August 7.But I think it's when the hummingbirds start to leave,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":919,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=919","url_meta":{"origin":8151,"position":3},"title":"And the Corn Palace Too","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Victorian Slind-Flor puts the \"Loaf\" in Lammas, with photos of the Palouse region and, even closer to my heart, the sacred Corn Palace of Mitchell, South Dakota, one of the great Roadside Attractions of the northern Plains.A quick flashback to a 1980s cross-country drive with M.: camping in the Black\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Lammas\"","block_context":{"text":"Lammas","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=lammas"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13722,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13722","url_meta":{"origin":8151,"position":4},"title":"Step Aside, John Barleycorn","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"See the Shaggy Parasol mushrooms? They were not there two or three days ago. Yet Lammas comes and they burst forth, full of fungal goodness. Here just north of the Colorado-New Mexico line, August is the heart of mushroom season. You can find them at other times too, but your\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Lammas\"","block_context":{"text":"Lammas","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=lammas"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shaggy-p-ground-level.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shaggy-p-ground-level.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shaggy-p-ground-level.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shaggy-p-ground-level.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shaggy-p-ground-level.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4517,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4517","url_meta":{"origin":8151,"position":5},"title":"The Wheel of the Year Slips its Cog&#8230;","author":"Chas S. 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