{"id":1416,"date":"2011-03-14T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-03-14T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:58:00","slug":"hymns-ancient-and-modern-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Hymns Ancient and Modern rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A church organist, an &#8220;Anglican agnostic,&#8221; writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Indeed, you could say that several &#8211; The Church&#8217;s one foundation, for example, and Praise to the holiest &#8211; rehearse the whole Christian doctrine in a handful of verses, unlike the pop pap that characterises many modern hymns. These are notable for the paucity of their musical and lyrical invention with their three-chord tricks for guitar and the cheap sentiments of a greetings card. Make me a channel of your peace with its scrambled, ungainly word-setting, is a particular horror. Even worse are the embarrassing &#8220;I&#8217;m-in-love-with-Jesus ditties&#8221;, some of which verge on the homoerotic. Dignity and nobility are in short supply.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtueonline.org\/portal\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=14088\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church organist, an &#8220;Anglican agnostic,&#8221; writes: &#8220;Indeed, you could say that several &#8211; The Church&#8217;s one foundation, for example, and Praise to the holiest &#8211; rehearse the whole Christian doctrine in a handful of verses, unlike the pop pap that characterises many modern hymns. These are notable for the paucity of their musical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}