{"id":574,"date":"2013-12-18T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=574"},"modified":"2013-12-18T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:00:19","slug":"advent-calendar-day-18-dixit-maria-hassler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/advent-calendar-day-18-dixit-maria-hassler\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 18: Dixit Maria (Hassler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1w-MPkixlQM\">Ne Timeas Maria<\/a> for today&#8217;s carol, since I&#8217;m in a bit of an Annunciation frame of mind this week, but then I finished the novel I was reading and felt moved to go on an extended rant about sexist assumptions and lazy authorial choices which I *could not do* because Andrew hasn&#8217;t finished the series yet, and after all that, I decided I wanted an Annunciation text in which Mary got a bit more agency.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wd7s40s-Ltw&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>And I mean, yes, she is saying &#8216;Here I am, the servant of the Lord, be it with me as you have said&#8217;, but at least she is speaking for herself and consenting, rather than just having things told to her by the Angel Gabriel (who is, I&#8217;m sure, a perfectly good Angel with modern views on gender equity, but today he is also the patriarchy, so I&#8217;m afraid he is out of luck).<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where I am going with this.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m honest, I&#8217;ll admit that the Victoria is a better piece of music.\u00a0 But the Hassler is cheery and surprisingly challenging to sing, and most of all it doesn&#8217;t make me cranky, and some days, that&#8217;s just the best you can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to do Ne Timeas Maria for today&#8217;s carol, since I&#8217;m in a bit of an Annunciation frame of mind this week, but then I finished the novel I was reading and felt moved to go on an extended rant about sexist assumptions and lazy authorial choices which I *could not do* because [&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":[13,189,301,518,729],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-dixit-maria","tag-hans-leo-hassler","tag-ne-timeas-maria","tag-tomas-luis-de-victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}