{"id":1816,"date":"2016-12-20T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:37:24","slug":"go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Tell It On The Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tScripture verse: Mark 16:15\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Go Tell It on the Mountain<\/em> is an African-American spiritual, whose original writer is lost to history. The song was compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., about 1865. It is also considered a Christmas carol because it proclaims Christ&rsquo;s birth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer. &quot;The Queen of Gospel&quot; had a powerful contralto especially suited to gospel music.<em> &quot;I sing God&#39;s music because it makes me feel free&quot;<\/em>, Jackson once said about her choice of gospel, adding, <em>&quot;It gives me hope.&quot;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMJ2UriVc40?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture verse: Mark 16:15 Go Tell It on the Mountain is an African-American spiritual, whose original writer is lost to history. The song was compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., about 1865. It is also considered a Christmas carol because it proclaims Christ&rsquo;s birth. Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer. &quot;The Queen of Gospel&quot; [&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":[682,539,681,683,686,684,685,549],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-musings","tag-african-american-spiritual","tag-christmas-song","tag-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","tag-gospel-song","tag-john-wesley-work-jr","tag-mahalia-jackson","tag-queen-of-gospel","tag-scripture-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}