{"id":6088,"date":"2021-11-28T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2021-11-28T23:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:58:02","slug":"light-in-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/2021\/11\/28\/light-in-the-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Light in the Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a time when Darkness has been descending with increasing rapidity. I am reminded of the story of the writing of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; by Francis Scott Key during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Navy during the War of Independence. Key wrote it during the battle when it was not clear that the fort or its garrison would remain standing in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are besieged by the forces of totalitarian communism which appear to be winning. Cultural destruction is just one front in this war, exemplified by Critical Race Theory and the multitude of expressions of political correctness that spew from our governments and academic institutions. Yet culture does survive and still produces works of beauty and light. I want to share this lovely piece by Karl Jenkins with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karl Jenkins - Benedictus\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ibwxzxER_pY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you liked this post, consider subscribing \u2013 in right-hand sidebar \u2013 if you are not a subscriber already. Please forward it to anyone else you might think will benefit from it. I haven\u2019t featured much music lately. If you would like to hear more, let me know \u2013 see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/home\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\".\/\">Back to Top<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a time when Darkness has been descending with increasing rapidity. I am reminded of the story of the writing of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; by Francis Scott Key during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Navy during the War of Independence. Key wrote it during the battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[272,271],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-generally-a-cappella","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictus","tag-karl-jenkins"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoog.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}