{"id":1734,"date":"2013-02-07T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2018-02-13T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:27:04","slug":"the-wexford-carol-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/02\/07\/the-wexford-carol-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wexford Carol at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas carol service brought my first chance to sing what I think is one of the most beautiful carols of all: the Wexford Carol.  This gorgeous Irish melody doesn&#8217;t really need all the oooh-ing and aah-ing that John Rutter puts around it, but any chance to sing it is welcome. <\/p>\n<p>In fact this service included some other composers I hadn&#8217;t sung before.  These was a setting of <i>Adam lay ybounden<\/i> by Robert Walker, an arrangement of <i>Es ist ein Ros&#8217;<\/i> (in English) by Mark Schweizer, and <i>My Lord has Come<\/i> by Will Todd (only a matter of time before I encountered the music of this last).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas carol service brought my first chance to sing what I think is one of the most beautiful carols of all: the Wexford Carol. This gorgeous Irish melody doesn&#8217;t really need all the oooh-ing and aah-ing that John Rutter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/02\/07\/the-wexford-carol-at-last\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[86,71,73,72,38,1332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}