{"id":4892,"date":"2009-12-17T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2009-12-17T00:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T06:30:27","slug":"songs-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/songs-of-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mike_benedetti\/4165207448\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Our homemade Advent wreath\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2617\/4165207448_1fa7185e87.jpg\" alt=\"Our homemade Advent wreath\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I love that songs tell us so much about our faith, our story, our journey. They also tell us a lot about our communities. The songs communities sing are very telling about how the community sees one another, life, God, faith, community, etc.<\/p>\n<p>While I believe Advent should be such a major part of our Christian life and story I&#8217;m struggling to come up with many Advent songs. Is it because of my own traditions, or is it because of our huge emphasis on Christmas Day itself?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the two I can think of right now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Come Thou Long Expected Jesus<\/p>\n<p>O Come, O Come Emmanuel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I&#8217;m struggling to come up with many. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What Advent songs can you think of?<\/p>\n<p>What do you sing at this time of year?<\/p>\n<p>Do you separate Advent from Christmas or are they one in the same?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that songs tell us so much about our faith, our story, our journey. They also tell us a lot about our communities. The songs communities sing are very telling about how the community sees one another, life, God, faith, community, etc. While I believe Advent should be such a major part of our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/songs-of-advent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Songs of Advent<\/span><\/a><\/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":[560,18,13,19],"tags":[1572,484,4650,1719,4647,1709],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-faith","category-music","category-reflections","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-faith","tag-holidays","tag-music","tag-songs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}