{"id":32984,"date":"2022-03-10T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32984"},"modified":"2022-03-10T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:57:28","slug":"the-ninth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32984","title":{"rendered":"The Ninth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just turned on the radio to listen to Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth Symphony. Its playing across broad swaths of the world on the radio right now to acknowledge the genocidal war of Trump&#8217;s friend and ally Vladimir <em>the Impaler<\/em> Putin. I think I might have sung the choral part in the fourth movement at a Duluth Superior Symphony performance once. If not, I&#8217;ve sung the Ode to Joy in English often enough in Church.<\/p>\n<p>1 Joyful, joyful, we adore You,<br \/>\nGod of glory, Lord of love;<br \/>\nHearts unfold like flow&#8217;rs before You,<br \/>\nOp&#8217;ning to the sun above.<br \/>\nMelt the clouds of sin and sadness;<br \/>\nDrive the dark of doubt away;<br \/>\nGiver of immortal gladness,<br \/>\nFill us with the light of day!<\/p>\n<p>2 All Your works with joy surround You,<br \/>\nEarth and heav&#8217;n reflect Your rays,<br \/>\nStars and angels sing around You,<br \/>\nCenter of unbroken praise;<br \/>\nField and forest, vale and mountain,<br \/>\nFlow&#8217;ry meadow, flashing sea,<br \/>\nChanting bird and flowing fountain<br \/>\nPraising You eternally!<\/p>\n<p>3 Always giving and forgiving,<br \/>\nEver blessing, ever blest,<br \/>\nWell-spring of the joy of living,<br \/>\nOcean-depth of happy rest!<br \/>\nLoving Father, Christ our Brother,<br \/>\nLet Your light upon us shine;<br \/>\nTeach us how to love each other,<br \/>\nLift us to the joy divine.<\/p>\n<p>4 Mortals, join the mighty chorus,<br \/>\nWhich the morning stars began;<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s own love is reigning o\u2019er us,<br \/>\nJoining people hand in hand.<br \/>\nEver singing, march we onward,<br \/>\nVictors in the midst of strife;<br \/>\nJoyful music leads us sunward<br \/>\nIn the triumph song of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>God bless the Ukraine!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just turned on the radio to listen to Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth Symphony. Its playing across broad swaths of the world on the radio right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32987,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984\/revisions\/32987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}