{"id":14012,"date":"2020-07-31T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14012"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T22:22:31","slug":"tidin-rennur-on-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14012","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tidin Rennur&#8217; on my birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-mE66rTDwB4\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The title mean<\/strong>s something like &#8220;Time Runs On (like a river).&#8221; It&#8217;s a beloved hymn of the Faeroe Islands, sung here by the world&#8217;s greatest singer, Norway&#8217;s Sissel Kyrkjebo. She&#8217;s singing in Faeroese, which I understand only a little better than you do. It&#8217;s an ancient dialect of Old Norse, and the Faeroese claim that it&#8217;s closer to what the Vikings actually spoke than modern Icelandic is. But the gist of the thing is that time runs on like a river, and I am in a little boat. Who will bring me safely home? Only Jesus can do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appropriate thoughts for my birthday. I had a nice day. Went out to lunch with a friend, and reveled in the pleasure of having paying work, and the promise of more to come. Thank you for your friendship here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title means something like &#8220;Time Runs On (like a river).&#8221; It&#8217;s a beloved hymn of the Faeroe Islands, sung here by the world&#8217;s greatest singer, Norway&#8217;s Sissel Kyrkjebo. She&#8217;s singing in Faeroese, which I understand only a little better than you do. It&#8217;s an ancient dialect of Old Norse, and the Faeroese claim that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Tidin Rennur&#8217; on my birthday<\/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":[9,14,1],"tags":[331,2596,3135],"class_list":["post-14012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-religion","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-sissel-kyrkjebo","tag-tidin-rennur"],"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\/14012","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=14012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}