{"id":566,"date":"2013-12-24T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=566"},"modified":"2013-12-24T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T22:00:35","slug":"advent-calendar-day-24-the-holly-and-the-ivy-trad-arranged-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/advent-calendar-day-24-the-holly-and-the-ivy-trad-arranged-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 24: The Holly and the Ivy (Trad. Arranged Shaw)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Holly and the Ivy has been one of my favourite Christmas Carols since I was quite young &#8211; I think I first heard it when my family stayed for a few months in England when I was six, and I rather imprinted on it because there was *actual holly* near where we lived and that was pretty exciting.\u00a0 Australia doesn&#8217;t really run much to holly, especially around Christmas.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Holly and the Ivy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnnYpyLsLcA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is one of those carols which tends to show its Pagan roots, while simultaneously being very very Christian and going, &#8216;no, really, the holly is totally all about being a symbol of Christ&#8217;s passion and has nothing to do with Yule, honest!&#8217;.\u00a0 So it always sits just a little oddly with me, even though I love both the melody and the words, with their vivid visual imagery.\u00a0 There are a lot of arrangements doing the rounds &#8211; I&#8217;m also fond of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=57l6dSbVppM\">Mediaeval Baebes version<\/a>, and if you ever wondered what Annie Lennox does with it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c33NUo5vKuE\">wonder no longer<\/a>!\u00a0 I especially like her jazz harmonies in the later verses.\u00a0 Gorgeous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holly and the Ivy has been one of my favourite Christmas Carols since I was quite young &#8211; I think I first heard it when my family stayed for a few months in England when I was six, and I rather imprinted on it because there was *actual holly* near where we lived and [&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":[13,40,487,614,615,691],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-annie-lennox","tag-mediaeval-baebes","tag-robert-shaw","tag-robert-shaw-chamber-singers","tag-the-holly-and-the-ivy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}