{"id":6482,"date":"2022-09-30T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:34:32","slug":"where-the-music-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6482","title":{"rendered":"Where the Music Went!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is the motto of my local &#8211; you might say &#8211; &#8220;oldies&#8221; station, playing the popular music of the late sixties and seventies.\u00a0 Indeed, it was excellent music, about which Larry Norman crooned, &#8220;Why should the devil have all the good music?&#8221;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it was good, Godless music.\u00a0 High quality use of instruments and voices.\u00a0 A great beat that made you &#8220;move my feet&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; as, again, Larry Norman put it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us pray, brethren, that those musicians composing music which honors the triune God &#8211; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit &#8211; will artfully and skillfully attain ever more to excellence in the arts and especially in lyrical music where the message of truth and salvation can be literally conveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Sept., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the motto of my local &#8211; you might say &#8211; &#8220;oldies&#8221; station, playing the popular music of the late sixties and seventies.\u00a0 Indeed, it was excellent music, about which Larry Norman crooned, &#8220;Why should the devil have all the good music?&#8221;! Yes, it was good, Godless music.\u00a0 High quality use of instruments and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,57,23,53,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482"}],"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=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}