{"id":965,"date":"2007-12-19T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2007-12-19T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T21:58:00","slug":"why-i-became-a-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":""Why I became a Pagan""},"content":{"rendered":"

The advent of the Web has made survey-taking much easier, and so when some graduate students want to interview Pagans, they just post a survey on SurveyMonkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This link came to me from a trusted source, so I plan to take it myself once I have the free time.<\/p>\n

It is interesting how methodology has changed. No one has to go to festivals and try to cajole people into answering a questionnaire anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The advent of the Web has made survey-taking much easier, and so when some graduate students want to interview Pagans, they just post a survey on SurveyMonkey. This link came to me from a trusted source, so I plan to take it myself once I have the free time. It is interesting how methodology has […]<\/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":[10,5,4],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1512,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1512","url_meta":{"origin":965,"position":0},"title":"Pagan Counseling Student Seeks Survey Input","author":"Chas S. 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