{"id":483,"date":"2009-10-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2009\/10\/earth-my-body\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:00:00","slug":"earth-my-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2009\/10\/earth-my-body.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth My Body"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/StuCOB_oPII\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/sD6_EpjcLCE\/s1600-h\/adopt+a+spot+1+10.18.09.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/StuCOB_oPII\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/sD6_EpjcLCE\/s400\/adopt+a+spot+1+10.18.09.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>If the Earth is the body of the Goddess, then how should we treat it? <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Denton CUUPS is now in our fifth year of bimonthly roadside cleanups under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdb.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keep Denton Beautiful <\/a>program. This picture is from today\u2019s cleanup, where we had near-perfect weather. We always seem to have good weather for our cleanups, even in August and February \u2013 wonder why???<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuups.org\/content2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans<\/a> combines the theology of Neopaganism with the this-world focus of Unitarian Universalism. For us, it\u2019s a good mixture.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Earth is the body of the Goddess, then how should we treat it? Denton CUUPS is now in our fifth year of bimonthly roadside cleanups under the Keep Denton Beautiful program. This picture is from today\u2019s cleanup, where we had near-perfect weather. 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