{"id":18356,"date":"2012-12-25T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18356"},"modified":"2012-12-25T00:01:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T05:01:05","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very Merry and blessed Christmas to all my readers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Here is J.S. Bach&#8217;s Christmas Oratorio BWV 248. It&#8217;s over two hours long but the whole thing is well worth listening to. I am firmly convinced that Bach&#8217;s music is one of the pinnacles of Western civilisation &#8211; the very best that Christendom has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Who better, then, to celebrate the Incarnation, the Word made flesh, God among us: the most significant event in human history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bFnW_CrPUlA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very Merry and blessed Christmas to all my readers and their families. Here is J.S. Bach&#8217;s Christmas Oratorio BWV 248. It&#8217;s over two hours long but the whole thing is well worth listening to. I am firmly convinced that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/merry-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[587,598,917,2206],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-chistmas","tag-christmas-oratorio-bwv-248","tag-j-s-bach","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}