{"id":1791,"date":"2016-12-13T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:35:52","slug":"god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen\/","title":{"rendered":"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tScripture verse: Joshua 1:9\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen<\/em> is one of the oldest extant carols. The earliest known printed edition is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. The traditional English melody is in the minor mode. The carol is referred to in Charles Dickens&#39;s book, <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, 1843: <em>&quot;&#8230;at the first sound of &#39;God bless you, merry gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!&#39;<\/em>, Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tViva Maria Choir, from the country of Lebanon, is a modern choir formed by committed believers who decided to implore their talents to serve God and help people pray. This is their flash mob rendition of <em>God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen<\/em> in a Beirut mall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TI8DVdGGdI4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture verse: Joshua 1:9 God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen is one of the oldest extant carols. The earliest known printed edition is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. The traditional English melody is in the minor mode. The carol is referred to in Charles Dickens&#39;s book, A Christmas Carol, 1843: &quot;&#8230;at the first sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[615,619,614,621,620,622,618,549,616,617],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-musings","tag-a-christmas-carol","tag-beirut","tag-charles-dickens","tag-christmas-carol","tag-flash-mob","tag-god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen","tag-lebanon","tag-scripture-verse","tag-scrooge","tag-viva-maria-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}