{"id":664,"date":"2007-12-06T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceworksimport.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/06\/words-of-good-cheer-filling-the-air"},"modified":"2007-12-06T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T17:44:00","slug":"words-of-good-cheer-filling-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":">Words of Good Cheer&#8230; Filling the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;<span style=\"font-size:85%;\">by Robin Schmidt<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have you hauled out the holly?  Decked the halls?  Do you hear jingle bells? Silver bells?  Are you simply having a wonderful Christmas time? <\/p>\n<p>The sounds of Christmas&#8230;music.<\/p>\n<p>Music is an amazing and powerful thing.  It can set a mood, or take you back in time.  Words and sound combine and together give expression to our deepest emotions.<\/p>\n<p>If I am alone in the house I will sit by the lit tree and play Amy Grant&#8230;Breath of Heaven, Little Town of Bethlehem, Emmanuel.  I listen and contemplate and pray.<\/p>\n<p>If I am out and about I enjoy Paul McCartney&#8217;s Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time, it has a cheerful energy.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Bells takes me to my Grandma&#8217;s house on the east side.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up I opened gifts to the sound of Johnny Mathus.<\/p>\n<p>No one does Jingle Bells like Barbara Streisand (upsot?).<\/p>\n<p>My favorite carols are God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and O Holy Night.<\/p>\n<p>What about you?  What is the Christmas music of your childhood?  What is your favorite carol?   Why?  I would love to hear about the music that touches you.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  Don&#8217;t let this Sunday, December 9th, be a silent night.  Come to Grace Chapel at 7pm for One Starry Night.  We will be filling the air with the sounds of Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;by Robin Schmidt Have you hauled out the holly? Decked the halls? Do you hear jingle bells? Silver bells? Are you simply having a wonderful Christmas time? The sounds of Christmas&#8230;music. Music is an amazing and powerful thing. It can set a mood, or take you back in time. Words and sound combine and together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0qX-aI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}