{"id":167,"date":"2012-12-11T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=167"},"modified":"2012-12-11T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T20:30:42","slug":"advent-calendar-day-11-remember-o-thou-man-ravenscroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/advent-calendar-day-11-remember-o-thou-man-ravenscroft\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 11: Remember, O Thou Man (Ravenscroft)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s song is, I think, the first piece of music I ever sang with the Wesley Choir, about ten years ago. It amused me no end at the time.\u00a0 It still does, somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nEjFIiGMXOk?rel=0]<!--more-->I trust you noticed the cheery and uplifting words?\u00a0 Bear in mind that I first sang this at a Christmas Carol service, not an Advent one.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the first verse<\/p>\n<address>Remember O thou man, thy time is spent<\/address>\n<address>Remember O thou man, how thou art dead and gone<\/address>\n<address>And I did what I can, therefore repent&#8230;<\/address>\n<p>There&#8217;s a definite element of &#8220;Look, I&#8217;ve done my bit, you&#8217;d better pull your socks up&#8221; about that.\u00a0 Incidentally, if you want to be really authentic about this, there are actually <a href=\"http:\/\/lyricsplayground.com\/alpha\/songs\/xmas\/rememberohthouman.shtml\">ten verses to this carol<\/a>.\u00a0 We sang the first three.\u00a0 I think this recording has about six.\u00a0 And bonus lute and recorder!\u00a0 What more could you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s song is, I think, the first piece of music I ever sang with the Wesley Choir, about ten years ago. It amused me no end at the time.\u00a0 It still does, somewhat. [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nEjFIiGMXOk?rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,135,325,606,724],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-church-music","tag-i-trust","tag-remember-o-thou-man","tag-thomas-ravenscroft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}