{"id":565,"date":"2013-12-22T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=565"},"modified":"2013-12-22T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T22:00:55","slug":"advent-calendar-day-22-rorate-coeli-schutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/22\/advent-calendar-day-22-rorate-coeli-schutz\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 22: Rorate Coeli (Sch\u00fctz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The text for the fourth Sunday in Advent is &#8216;Rorate coeli de super, et nubes pluvant justum&#8217;, which roughly translated means &#8216;Let the heavens open, and the clouds rain down justice&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>OK, Melbournites, look at the weather forecast, now look at this text, now back at the weather forecasts, now back at this text&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Melbourne seems to think that &#8216;justum&#8217; translates as &#8216;cats and dogs&#8217;, but on the whole, I feel it&#8217;s safe to say that this is the text your city could precipitate like.<\/p>\n<p>(And people say that Melbourne&#8217;s weather is unseasonable&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, OK, that got a little weird.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCmoOvtFuds&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s much I can say about this particularly gorgeous setting of the Rorate Coeli that I haven&#8217;t said before.\u00a0 It fills me with absolute delight &#8211; I&#8217;ve just sat here and listened to it from start to finish twice in a row, without being able to think about or write anything else.\u00a0 It is, when it comes down to it, quite simply a beautiful piece of music.\u00a0 Does anything else need to be said?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text for the fourth Sunday in Advent is &#8216;Rorate coeli de super, et nubes pluvant justum&#8217;, which roughly translated means &#8216;Let the heavens open, and the clouds rain down justice&#8217;. OK, Melbournites, look at the weather forecast, now look at this text, now back at the weather forecasts, now back at this text&#8230; Sadly, [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}