{"id":7323,"date":"2010-02-01T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:53:59","slug":"air-force-now-using-broomsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/air-force-now-using-broomsticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Air force now using broomsticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,584500,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter Harriers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witches, Druids and pagans rejoice! The Air Force Academy in Colorado is about to recognize its first Wiccan prayer circle, a Stonehenge on the Rockies that will serve as an outdoor place of worship for the academy&#8217;s neo-pagans.<\/p>\n<p>Wiccan cadets and officers on the Colorado Springs base have been convening for over a decade, but the school will officially dedicate a newly built circle of stones on about March 10, putting the outdoor sanctuary on an equal footing with the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist chapels on the base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first arrived here, Earth-centered cadets didn&#8217;t have anywhere to call home,&#8221; said Sgt. Robert Longcrier, the lay leader of the neo-pagan groups on base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, they meet every Monday night, they get to go on retreats, and they have a stone circle.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much as I hate to be non-inclusive: what the hell are <em>Earth-centered cadets <\/em>doing in the air force?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter Harriers: Witches, Druids and pagans rejoice! The Air Force Academy in Colorado is about to recognize its first Wiccan prayer circle, a Stonehenge on the Rockies that will serve as an outdoor place of worship for the academy&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/air-force-now-using-broomsticks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}