{"id":1698,"date":"2020-12-06T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T10:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2024-11-19T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:50:02","slug":"the-songwriter-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-songwriter-sings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Songwriter Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The song that I was going to share today has already appeared in my newsfeed this morning &#8211; so I will save that for another time! This is a more than adequate replacement&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whilst a lot of christmas music dates from many, many years ago there are plenty of examples of &#8220;more recent&#8221; compositions that have quickly become well known and evoke the seasonal spirit. This one is less than 40 yrs old and &#8211; like much of the christmas repertoire &#8211; it has been recorded many times in many different styles.<\/p>\n<p>This particular one has the advantage of the composer being the lead singer &#8211; so perhaps this is how he imagined it when he wrote it.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uaRpeMT1tjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Lowry : Mary Did You Know<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uaRpeMT1tjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Young<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I first heard this years ago ,sung by Michael Crawford .<br \/>\nThank you for sharing .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen Whittingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We love voctave \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song that I was going to share today has already appeared in my newsfeed this morning &#8211; so I will save that for another time! This is a more than adequate replacement&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[105,114,118],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-religious","tag-vocal","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}