{"id":21055,"date":"2025-08-27T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21055"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:05:04","slug":"psalms-on-a-day-of-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21055","title":{"rendered":"Psalms on a day of sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Psalm Sounds Like It Was Born in the Blues\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6rz6D787n0U?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A dark day in Minneapolis.<\/strong> I used to live not far from where the atrocity happened. I could say a lot of bitter, partisan, thoughtless things, but best to keep my big mouth shut while people are grieving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend alerted me to the clip above. I know nothing about Holy Groove, but it grabbed me right away. This (in my opinion) just <em>works<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who know me, know I don&#8217;t care much for contemporary Christian music. Based on how the controversy over CCM tends to run, I suppose they assume I don&#8217;t like new styles of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing could be further from the truth. I have no problem with guitars in the sanctuary. I have no problem with drums in the sanctuary. Saxophones and electronic synthesizers are cool as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My objection is to bland, repetitive <em>lyrics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever object to the Psalms. And the blues are so flexible that they adjust to the text with smoothness and elegance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe there&#8217;s comfort here for someone today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dark day in Minneapolis. I used to live not far from where the atrocity happened. I could say a lot of bitter, partisan, thoughtless things, but best to keep my big mouth shut while people are grieving. A friend alerted me to the clip above. I know nothing about Holy Groove, but it grabbed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Psalms on a day of sadness<\/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":[5672,5671,1403],"class_list":["post-21055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-religion","tag-contemporary-christian-music","tag-holy-groove","tag-jazz"],"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\/21055","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=21055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21058,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}