{"id":3567,"date":"2005-06-18T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2020-09-21T08:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:45:01","slug":"3567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading <u>Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves<\/u> by Sarah M. Pike.  I am really digging it, and I&#8217;m almost done.  It was a random book that <lj user=\"benniferus\"> needed for a paper, so I checked it out of the MSU library.  I kept renewing it, because I got hooked after the first few pages.  What an amazingly accurate and stark light she shines on Neo-pagans&#8230; even-handed in both the positive and negative.  Though it&#8217;s a bit academic (Benny says dry), I&#8217;d recommend this for anyone interested in learning more about Neopaganism.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Though it will clarify much about your standard Neopagans, I find myself understanding more and more why I only seem to half-identify with most.<\/p>\n<p>I am getting urges to do situps\/crunches and pushups.  This is an entirely foreign feeling to me.<\/p>\n<p>Classes are going well.  The first summer session is approaching completion, and this means buckling down for papers and finals.  I think I may follow <lj user=\"takarosa\">&#8216;s lead and reward myself with a second tattoo when I graduate.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8228479\/\">hydrogen fuel cell motorcycles<\/a> will be in mass production very soon.  They&#8217;re going to start at $6,000, and go down as mass production increases.  Not so much for speed demons, but an actual hydrogen cell vehicle.  I&#8217;m amazed.  So much for my overwhelming distaste for MSNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves by Sarah M. Pike. I am really digging it, and I&#8217;m almost done. It was a random book that needed for a paper, so I checked it out of the MSU library. I kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3567\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saQnES-3567","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}