{"id":919,"date":"2007-08-03T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2007-08-03T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T22:17:00","slug":"and-the-corn-palace-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"And the Corn Palace Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Slind-Flor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrifocus.com\/LAM07\/seasonal.htm\">puts the &#8220;Loaf&#8221; in Lammas<\/a>, with photos of the Palouse region and, even closer to my heart, the sacred <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornpalace.org\/\">Corn Palace<\/a> of Mitchell, South Dakota, one of the great Roadside Attractions of the northern Plains.<\/p>\n<p>A quick flashback to a 1980s cross-country drive with M.: camping in the Black Hills and the Badlands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walldrug.com\/\">Wall Drug<\/a>, and then showing her the Corn Palace&#8211;all memories of boyhood years spent in Rapid City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Slind-Flor puts the &#8220;Loaf&#8221; 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 Hills and the Badlands, [&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":[],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lammas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-eP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":698,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=698","url_meta":{"origin":919,"position":0},"title":"The corner of the year","author":"Chas S. 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This one, I think, is from Iran: This one comes from the island of Cyprus: And while we're in the mood, let's not forget Whitman McGowan's \"White Folks Was Wild Once Too,\" with video that is NSFW if you work in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dance\"","block_context":{"text":"dance","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=dance"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13722,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13722","url_meta":{"origin":919,"position":3},"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. 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