{"id":4881,"date":"2009-12-09T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2009-12-09T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:03:26","slug":"songs-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/songs-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yogendra174\/4160763622\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Sun sets on the temple\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2624\/4160763622_ffaff2a641.jpg\" alt=\"Sun sets on the temple\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Over the years my favorite Christmas songs have changed from year to year.<\/p>\n<p>I remember singing a number of songs growing up, including Come on Ring those Bells, Silent Night, Rudolph, etc. etc. But over the last few years, I think I&#8217;ve settled in on my all time favorite. <\/p>\n<p>O Holy Night.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIf nothing else, because of the amazing (often overlooked) 3rd verse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Truly He taught us to love one another,<br \/>\nHis law is love and His gospel is peace.<br \/>\nChains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.<br \/>\nAnd in his name all oppression shall cease.<br \/>\nSweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,<br \/>\nWith all our hearts we praise His holy name.<br \/>\nChrist is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,<br \/>\nHis power and glory ever more proclaim!<br \/>\nHis power and glory ever more proclaim!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And because it never gets old &#8211; here&#8217;s the Studio 60 version of this song, performed by Troy &#8220;Trombone Shorty&#8221; Andrews and a group of musicians from New Orleans&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s <em>your<\/em> favorite Christmas song or lyric?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years my favorite Christmas songs have changed from year to year. I remember singing a number of songs growing up, including Come on Ring those Bells, Silent Night, Rudolph, etc. etc. But over the last few years, I think I&#8217;ve settled in on my all time favorite. O Holy Night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[1572,1736,484,1661,2789,833,1737],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","tag-advent","tag-carol","tag-christmas","tag-holy-night","tag-silent-night","tag-song","tag-studio-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1gJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}