{"id":13004,"date":"2019-11-01T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13004"},"modified":"2019-11-01T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:06:16","slug":"behold-a-host-arrayed-in-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13004","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Behold a Host, Arrayed in White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjux2irFryo\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Above is a traditional Scandinavian hymn<\/strong> by the Danish hymnwriter Hans Adolf Brorson. The music was arranged, I believe, by Edvard Grieg. If you&#8217;re patient, you&#8217;ll hear the English words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a hymn about the blessed saints in Heaven, based on a passage from Revelation. It&#8217;s particularly suited to All Saints Day, which is today. It was also a favorite of my father&#8217;s. Gene Edward Veith, at his Cranach blog,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2019\/11\/a-festival-of-life-amidst-festivals-of-death\/\"> laments<\/a> how this festival day, devoted to eternal life, has come to be overshadowed by celebrations of death and horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a month which (for me) has been full of genuine death, it&#8217;s good to contemplate our eternal hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is a traditional Scandinavian hymn by the Danish hymnwriter Hans Adolf Brorson. The music was arranged, I believe, by Edvard Grieg. If you&#8217;re patient, you&#8217;ll hear the English words. It&#8217;s a hymn about the blessed saints in Heaven, based on a passage from Revelation. It&#8217;s particularly suited to All Saints Day, which is today. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Behold a Host, Arrayed in White<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[150,291,1049],"class_list":["post-13004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-religion","tag-all-saints-day","tag-behold-a-host-arrayed-in-white","tag-gene-edward-veith"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}