{"id":974,"date":"2019-12-19T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=974"},"modified":"2019-12-19T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:07:12","slug":"sounds-of-the-season-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/19\/sounds-of-the-season-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of the season, day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Heard_the_Bells_on_Christmas_Day\">Wikipedia<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HgsrItm-PmQ\">YouTube<\/a>) is a pretty song. No schmaltzy holiday tune, it reflects terrible darkness. You wouldn&#8217;t know it from most renditions, though, because they skip the dire middle verses. The version by Echosmith that I link to has the full lyrics in the comments, but they replace the dark bits in the performance with a jaunty instrumental transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Then from each black, accursed mouth<br \/> The cannon thundered in the South, <br \/> And with the sound<br \/> The carols drowned<br \/> Of peace on earth, good-will to men!<br \/> <br \/> It was as if an earthquake rent<br \/> The hearth-stones of a continent,<br \/> And made forlorn<br \/> The households born<br \/> Of peace on earth, good-will to men!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-fife.png?resize=640%2C309&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a pig playing a fife\" class=\"wp-image-972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-fife.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-fife.png?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day&#8221; (Wikipedia\/YouTube) is a pretty song. No schmaltzy holiday tune, it reflects terrible darkness. You wouldn&#8217;t know it from most renditions, though, because they skip the dire middle verses. The version by Echosmith that I link to has the full lyrics in the comments, but they replace the dark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/19\/sounds-of-the-season-day-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sounds of the season, day 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,32],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera","tag-music","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-fI","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}