{"id":34195,"date":"2012-08-23T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/how_paris_is_falling_in_love_with_gospel_music\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:00:14","slug":"how_paris_is_falling_in_love_with_gospel_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34195","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Magazine) How Paris is falling in love with gospel music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France may be the most militantly secular country in Europe, but Paris&#8217;s gospel scene is flourishing.<\/p>\n<p>The choir sways and their orange robes sway with them. The conductor, packed in an ice-cream-white suit, urging them on, while out front the Reverend Jean Carpenter &#8211; moving quite possibly like nobody has ever moved before in this ancient church in the medieval heart of Paris &#8211; sings praise to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>The person who emailed to say I should go and hear her sing described her voice in one word &#8211; &#8220;Biiiiiiiiiiig&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t exaggerating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19345151\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France may be the most militantly secular country in Europe, but Paris&#8217;s gospel scene is flourishing. The choir sways and their orange robes sway with them. The conductor, packed in an ice-cream-white suit, urging them on, while out front the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34195\">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":[39,50,200,468,132,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france","category-music","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34195","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=34195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}