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¶ Now this is a poorly written headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ As John Leo would explain in “Thoughts on Good Writing”<\/a>, the headline writer needs to “work to avoid the dead idioms that we all seem to carry in our heads.” <\/p>\n

¶ Weirdest search string to bring someone here in the past month: “Is the vagina of the pagan priestess a holy place?” (punctuation supplied). Discuss among yourselves. This site was the top search result<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ They are using laser analysis on the Book of Kells<\/a>, and, coincidentally, the Vikings are headed for Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

¶ Now this is a poorly written headline. ¶ As John Leo would explain in “Thoughts on Good Writing”, the headline writer needs to “work to avoid the dead idioms that we all seem to carry in our heads.” ¶ Weirdest search string to bring someone here in the past month: “Is the vagina of […]<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[20,3,12],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-blogging","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ee","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2141,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2141","url_meta":{"origin":882,"position":0},"title":"‘Free Classic Weird Fiction’","author":"Chas S. 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We're in control and you better keep quiet and get used to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"esotericism\"","block_context":{"text":"esotericism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=esotericism"},"img":{"alt_text":"Queen Elizabeth, her daughter-in-law, and grand-daughter","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/telegraphtrio-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2283,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2283","url_meta":{"origin":882,"position":5},"title":"‘Academically Adrift’","author":"Chas S. 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