Why is there music in a church service? Why do we go to operas and musical theatre? What is it about music and lyrics?<\/p>\n
Perhaps a demonstration is in order. Go take a listen to a regular-looking guy with a silly little harp telling a story in a thousand-year-old language<\/a>, and then tell me you didn’t get shivers up your spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why is there music in a church service? Why do we go to operas and musical theatre? What is it about music and lyrics? Perhaps a demonstration is in order. Go take a listen to a regular-looking guy with a silly little harp telling a story in a thousand-year-old language, and then tell me you … Continue reading “If All Sermons Could Be Like This”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[123,124],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-rants","tag-bagby","tag-beowulf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}