{"id":36849,"date":"2025-08-24T16:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36849"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:20:06","slug":"36849","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36849","title":{"rendered":"Church and Secular Gospel Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36815\">Last post<\/a> Gold leafed Turd Lickers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36859\">Next post<\/a> I managed to do today\u2019s news summary in only fifty posting minutes<\/p>\n<p>Before church yesterday I started two posts which I didn&#8217;t get back to until mid afternoon. The last one which is linked above in the &#8220;Last post&#8221; link was edited to almost be worthy of my sending it to Substack without embarrassing me too much despite the caustic title. It turns out that today I seem equally inspired to write blog posts. Most are along the lines of a title like this. <strong>Democracy&#8217;s death by a thousand Trump monkeys making a thousand cuts each in the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could write all day but I want this post to reflect the pleasure I had at the last song that was played at church yesterday. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve heard it before It was by a Robert Lowry who I think was born in 1848 so it is not a contemporary song. I enjoyed singing it along with the verses which were projected on a screen at the front of our church sanctuary. Here&#8217;s a video of a little more bluegrassy version I found on you tube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Can I Keep from Singing\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CnsCKkveqnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jerry, an octogenarian who our previous choir director always joked she had to keep his tuneless voice out of our choir that she told him we practiced at 3 in the morning to deter him, asked me in wonder where it was in our hymnal. I agreed with his enthusiasm and said I didn&#8217;t know it and doubted it was in ours.  <\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to a story on NPR yesterday about a new style of popular music that I will much prefer to rap. Its almost choir like and singable. The song we sang yesterday isn&#8217;t part of this genre except in spirit. Here&#8217;s the NPR story.  <a href=\"http:\/\/NPR https:\/\/share.google\/Y0M03QjQ3rAeTiuuY\">NPR https:\/\/share.google\/Y0M03QjQ3rAeTiuuY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Gold leafed Turd Lickers Next post I managed to do today\u2019s news summary in only fifty posting minutes Before church yesterday I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meaning-of-life","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=36849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36863,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849\/revisions\/36863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}