{"id":5320,"date":"2021-12-06T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:38:42","slug":"have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-redux-and-keep-the-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5320","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas&#8221; (Redux.  And keep the tune)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have yourself a merry little Christmas <br>Got nothin&#8217; to do with those &#8220;fates&#8221;! <br>All about that Jesus the Messiah <br>The Lord of heaven ab-o-o-o-o-ve yuh, <br>So get yourself to repe-e-ntance <br>So that you can join the dance <br>Way up there with Him in the sky <br>In that place where no one dies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Give Him praise all of your days <br>Steadfast in His ways <br>Buck on up and stand for the Truth <br>Might even have to loose a tooth! <br>Won&#8217;t been there up in heaven <br>Make sure you get there and leaven <br>Lives of others who follow hard <br>After that most holy Bard <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He gives that daily vital inspiration <br>Needed for our lives <br>We need Him for many-a situation <br>Not just those of de-e-spe-e-ra-a-ation <br>But in ev-e-ry kind of gig <br>Got to look for so &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; mething big <br>He takes care and even while we stare <br>When there&#8217;s nothing more we can bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cir. noon on 6 Dec., 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have yourself a merry little Christmas Got nothin&#8217; to do with those &#8220;fates&#8221;! All about that Jesus the Messiah The Lord of heaven ab-o-o-o-o-ve yuh, So get yourself to repe-e-ntance So that you can join the dance Way up there with Him in the sky In that place where no one dies. Give Him praise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}