{"id":414,"date":"2010-05-09T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:29:00","slug":"cuups-beltane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html","title":{"rendered":"CUUPS Beltane"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Beltane was so much fun I had to do it again!<\/p>\n<p>Last night was our CUUPS Beltane Circle \u2013 a great time celebrating the beginning of Summer and working to bring more love into our lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-ccmpahFSI\/AAAAAAAAAdA\/Az3Jlq4qozI\/s1600\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+16+Ashley+speaks.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-ccmpahFSI\/AAAAAAAAAdA\/Az3Jlq4qozI\/s400\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+16+Ashley+speaks.jpg\"><\/a> Ashley reads \u201cThe Flowers\u201d by Robert Louis Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-ccMfh2R3I\/AAAAAAAAAc4\/NdS5WDKsZeE\/s1600\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+24+Maypole.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-ccMfh2R3I\/AAAAAAAAAc4\/NdS5WDKsZeE\/s400\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+24+Maypole.jpg\"><\/a> The Maypole Dance!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-cb3tueepI\/AAAAAAAAAcw\/mbcSt6BC5DU\/s1600\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+28+procession.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-cb3tueepI\/AAAAAAAAAcw\/mbcSt6BC5DU\/s400\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+28+procession.jpg\"><\/a> The Beltane Procession.\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-cbp0-e1KI\/AAAAAAAAAco\/v1pU09rmozU\/s1600\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+32+spiral+dance.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-cbp0-e1KI\/AAAAAAAAAco\/v1pU09rmozU\/s400\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+32+spiral+dance.jpg\"><\/a>The Spiral Dance.\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane was so much fun I had to do it again! Last night was our CUUPS Beltane Circle \u2013 a great time celebrating the beginning of Summer and working to bring more love into our lives. Ashley reads \u201cThe Flowers\u201d by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Maypole Dance! The Beltane Procession. The Spiral Dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CUUPS Beltane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Beltane was so much fun I had to do it again!Last night was our CUUPS Beltane Circle - a great time celebrating the beginning of Summer and working to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CUUPS Beltane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Beltane was so much fun I had to do it again!Last night was our CUUPS Beltane Circle - a great time celebrating the beginning of Summer and working to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"John Beckett\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-05-09T15:29:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/S-ccmpahFSI\/AAAAAAAAAdA\/Az3Jlq4qozI\/s400\/CUUPS+Beltane+2010+16+Ashley+speaks.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Beckett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Beckett\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html\",\"name\":\"CUUPS Beltane\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-05-09T15:29:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-05-09T15:29:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/#\/schema\/person\/b4c8980dc36f971434424c304ca429ad\"},\"description\":\"Beltane was so much fun I had to do it again!Last night was our CUUPS Beltane Circle - a great time celebrating the beginning of Summer and working to\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/05\/cuups-beltane.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"CUUPS Beltane\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/\",\"name\":\"John Beckett\",\"description\":\"Musings of a Druid, Pagan, and Unitarian Universalist.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/#\/schema\/person\/b4c8980dc36f971434424c304ca429ad\",\"name\":\"John Beckett\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f50bfa2a79f70103847fe75540bb29c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f50bfa2a79f70103847fe75540bb29c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"John Beckett\"},\"description\":\"I grew up in Tennessee with the woods right outside my back door. 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