{"id":160297,"date":"2021-12-23T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=160297"},"modified":"2021-12-23T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:14:48","slug":"two-weeks-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/two-weeks-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Two weeks early"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-160297-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Brightest-and-Best.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Brightest-and-Best.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Brightest-and-Best.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/imslp-southern-harmony-walker-william\/page\/n53\/mode\/2up\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an old shape-note hymn<\/a>, &#8220;Star in the East&#8221; or &#8220;Brightest and Best,&#8221; from William Walker&#8217;s <strong><em>The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion<\/em><\/strong>. It&#8217;s actually an Epiphany hymn, but since &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221; is inescapable at this time of year, I figured I can post it for the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Southern Harmony<\/em><\/strong> is an interesting historical document, by the way. While it contains much worthwhile music, it also has such curiosities as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/imslp-southern-harmony-walker-william\/page\/n119\/mode\/2up\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Romish Lady<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a Romish Lady brought up in Popery,<br \/>\nHer mother always taught her the priest she must obey;<br \/>\nO pardon me, dear mother, I humbly pray thee now<br \/>\nFor unto these false idols I can no longer bow.<\/p>\n<p>Assisted by her handmaid, a Bible she conceal&#8217;d,<br \/>\nAnd there she gain&#8217;d instructions, till God his love reveal&#8217;d;<br \/>\nNo more she prostrates herself to pictures deck&#8217;d with gold.<br \/>\nBut soon she was betray&#8217;d&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Betrayed by her mother, she is thrown into a dungeon by priests, brought before the Pope and condemned to be burnt to death. Such was the state of ecumenism in the 19th-century United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an old shape-note hymn, &#8220;Star in the East&#8221; or &#8220;Brightest and Best,&#8221; from William Walker&#8217;s The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. It&#8217;s actually an Epiphany hymn, but since &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221; is inescapable at this time of year, I figured I can post it for the Christmas season. Southern Harmony is an interesting historical &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/two-weeks-early\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two weeks early&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-FHr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160306,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160297\/revisions\/160306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}