{"id":56483,"date":"2016-11-26T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_prayer_for_the_feast_day_of_isaac_watts1\/"},"modified":"2016-11-26T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T18:00:45","slug":"a_prayer_for_the_feast_day_of_isaac_watts1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56483","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Isaac Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God of truth and grace, who didst give Isaac Watts singular gifts to present thy praise in verse, that he might write psalms, hymns and spiritual songs for thy Church: Give us grace joyfully to sing thy praises now and in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Father of English hymnody &#8211; why every Christian songwriter should thank God for Isaac Watts: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0IvWULychS\">https:\/\/t.co\/0IvWULychS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AJF1wkknSu\">pic.twitter.com\/AJF1wkknSu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christian Today (@ChristianToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianToday\/status\/802500154402205696\">November 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God of truth and grace, who didst give Isaac Watts singular gifts to present thy praise in verse, that he might write psalms, hymns and spiritual songs for thy Church: Give us grace joyfully to sing thy praises now and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56483\">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":[48,186,183,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56483","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=56483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}