{"id":1585,"date":"2008-04-16T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/04\/margot-adler\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:13:18","slug":"margot-adler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/04\/margot-adler.html","title":{"rendered":"Margot Adler"},"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\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SAXjb9QPgkI\/AAAAAAAAA24\/xP13zwVeVIA\/s1600-h\/margotadler.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SAXjb9QPgkI\/AAAAAAAAA24\/xP13zwVeVIA\/s400\/margotadler.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>I\u2019ve just noticed that today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margot_Adler\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Margot Adler\u2019s<\/a> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>One may know her as an NPR correspondent out of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>She is also a noted neo-pagan and Unitarian Universalist, and author of the signal study of the earth-centered revival, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drawing-Down-Moon-Witches-Goddess-Worshippers\/dp\/0143038192\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshipers and Other Pagans in America Today<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long considered her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drawing_Down_the_Moon_%28book%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">study<\/a> essential reading for anyone interested in the whole range of depth, silliness and profundity that has gathered together under the neo-pagan umbrella. Adler brings an obvious love of the emerging tradition as well as an insistence on a clear-eyed appraisal. <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Drawing Down the Moon<\/span> is a genuine classic of spiritual reportage\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Margot!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-2491265988732267655?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just noticed that today is Margot Adler\u2019s birthday. One may know her as an NPR correspondent out of New York City. She is also a noted neo-pagan and Unitarian Universalist, and author of the signal study of the earth-centered revival, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshipers and Other Pagans in America Today. 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