{"id":42137,"date":"2014-01-18T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_an_oscar_nod_for_a_christian_movie_song_by_joni_eareckson_tada\/"},"modified":"2014-01-18T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T20:30:39","slug":"ct_an_oscar_nod_for_a_christian_movie_song_by_joni_eareckson_tada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42137","title":{"rendered":"(CT) An Oscar Nod for a Christian Movie Song by Joni Eareckson Tada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hollywood nod to a Christian film has come as a shock to the entertainment world, as the song &#8220;Alone Yet Not Alone&#8221; (from the movie by the same name) was nominated for an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>The song beat out Coldplay, Taylor Swift, and Lana Del Ray to join the other four nominees for best original song: Frozen&#8217;s &#8220;Let it Go&#8221;; U2&#8217;s &#8220;Ordinary Love&#8221; from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; Pharrell Williams&#8217;s &#8220;Happy&#8221; from Despicable Me 2; and Karen O&#8217;s &#8220;The Moon Song&#8221; from Her.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more surprising, however, may be the person who performed the song in the end credits: Joni Eareckson Tada, quadriplegic Christian author and speaker, and one of CT&#8217;s &#8220;50 Women You Should Know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2014\/january\/oscar-best-song-alone-yet-not-alone-joni-eareckson-tada.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hollywood nod to a Christian film has come as a shock to the entertainment world, as the song &#8220;Alone Yet Not Alone&#8221; (from the movie by the same name) was nominated for an Oscar. The song beat out Coldplay,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42137\">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":[39,42,419,93,132,154,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-movies-television","category-music","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42137","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=42137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}