{"id":1819,"date":"2016-12-21T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:38:59","slug":"marys-boy-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/marys-boy-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary&#8217;s Boy Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tScripture verse: Luke 1:26\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Mary&#39;s Boy Child<\/em> is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. Hairston wrote the song with a calypso rhythm because he performed it at a party of West Indians. The song&#39;s original title was <em>He Pone and Chocolate Tea<\/em>. It was never recorded in this form. Walter Schumann, conductor of Schumann&#39;s Hollywood Choir, asked Hairston to write a new Christmas song for the choir. Hairston simply wrote new lyrics for his calypso song.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHarold George &quot;Harry&quot; Bellanfanti, Jr., professionally known as Harry Belafonte, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist. He was pronounced the &quot;King of Calypso&quot; for making the Caribbean musical style rise in popularity in the 1950s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WY3o4_iIudg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture verse: Luke 1:26 Mary&#39;s Boy Child is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. Hairston wrote the song with a calypso rhythm because he performed it at a party of West Indians. The song&#39;s original title was He Pone and Chocolate Tea. It was never recorded in this form. Walter Schumann, conductor of [&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":[689,696,539,694,693,690,688,695,687,692,691],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-musings","tag-calypso-rhythm","tag-caribbean-musical-style","tag-christmas-song","tag-harold-george-harry-bellanfanti-jr","tag-harry-belafonte","tag-he-pone-and-chocolate-tea","tag-jester-hairston","tag-king-of-calypso","tag-marys-boy-child","tag-schumanns-hollywood-choir","tag-walter-schumann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}