{"id":1814,"date":"2016-12-19T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:37:16","slug":"it-came-upon-a-midnight-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/it-came-upon-a-midnight-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tScripture verse: Genesis 26:4\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>It Came Upon the Midnight Clear<\/em> (1849) is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears. Sears&#39; lyrics are most commonly set to one of two melodies: <em>Carol,<\/em> composed by Richard Storrs Willis, or <em>Noel,<\/em> adapted from an English melody.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCeltic Woman is an all-female Irish ensemble created by David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes in 2004. The group&#39;s line-up of singers has changed over the years. Susan McFadden is now a member, an actress and singer born in Dublin, Ireland, who sings this song.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LYDa4Kht6Eo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture verse: Genesis 26:4 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1849) is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears. Sears&#39; lyrics are most commonly set to one of two melodies: Carol, composed by Richard Storrs Willis, or Noel, adapted from an English melody. Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish ensemble created by David [&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":[679,675,621,674,678,673,680,677,549,676],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-musings","tag-carol","tag-celtic-woman","tag-christmas-carol","tag-edmund-sears","tag-english-melody","tag-it-came-upon-the-midnight-clear","tag-noel","tag-richard-storrs-willis","tag-scripture-verse","tag-susan-mcfadden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}