{"id":105673,"date":"2021-10-05T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105673"},"modified":"2021-10-05T05:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T09:50:59","slug":"bbc-songs-of-praise-queen-congratulates-bbc-show-on-60th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105673","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Songs of Praise: Queen congratulates BBC show on 60th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has congratulated &#8220;all those involved&#8221; in BBC One&#8217;s Songs of Praise as the show celebrates 60 years on air.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 3,000 episodes of the world&#8217;s longest-running religious TV programme have aired since its first transmission, from Cardiff, in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to be broadcast on Sunday&#8217;s show in Westminster Abbey, the Queen applauded the series for showing Christianity as &#8220;a living faith&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Aled Jones, the show will feature ex-presenters and star guests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-58775045\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How wonderful BBC songs of praise is celebrating its 60th anniversary! Thanks be to God!<\/p>\n<p>BBC News &#8211; Songs of Praise: Queen congratulates BBC show on 60th anniversary<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d4nCmO6w75\">https:\/\/t.co\/d4nCmO6w75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donna Redding &#x1f499; (@donna_redding) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donna_redding\/status\/1444574597731561474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has congratulated &#8220;all those involved&#8221; in BBC One&#8217;s Songs of Praise as the show celebrates 60 years on air. Nearly 3,000 episodes of the world&#8217;s longest-running religious TV programme have aired since its first transmission, from Cardiff, in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105673\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,183,89,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-media","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105675,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105673\/revisions\/105675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}