{"id":41798,"date":"2013-12-29T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_a_church_an_oratorio_and_an_enduring_tradition2013\/"},"modified":"2013-12-29T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T00:00:54","slug":"npr_a_church_an_oratorio_and_an_enduring_tradition2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41798","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) A Church, An Oratorio And An Enduring Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Berliner and longtime member of St. Mary&#8217;s church choir, Christian Beier attempts to explain the mystique and tradition behind this piece of music&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes Christmas Christmas,&#8221; he adds with a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>But as gorgeous as the music is for Beier, the core of this yearly event is something deeper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is getting into some dialogue with God. It is being moved by whatever is around us,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/12\/22\/144078970\/a-church-an-oratorio-and-an-enduring-tradition\">Read or listen to it all (audio for this highly encouraged)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Berliner and longtime member of St. Mary&#8217;s church choir, Christian Beier attempts to explain the mystique and tradition behind this piece of music&#8230;. &#8220;It makes Christmas Christmas,&#8221; he adds with a chuckle. But as gorgeous as the music is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41798\">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":[48,50,575,187,200,478,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-europe","category-germany","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41798","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=41798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}