{"id":1419,"date":"2008-07-16T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T01:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2010-07-31T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T02:40:07","slug":"great-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Great new song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Near wrote the song &#8220;I Am Willing&#8221; in 2003. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Cm0gIma_LgA\">She sang it May 18, 2006, at a peace rally<\/a> outside the White House, with Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow singing back-up. I learned this song from Laurie Loosigian, and it has become my new religio-political anthem. It&#8217;s easy to sing, with a powerful chorus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am open and I am willing,<br \/>\nfor to be hopeless would seem so strange &#8212;<br \/>\nit dishonors those who go before us,<br \/>\nso lift me up to the light of change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to introduce this to my church this fall, and after you listen to the song, your church might want to do the same. (You can find a score of a gospel-y arrangement, with recordings of all four parts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galachoruses.org\/events\/festival\/rehearsal_womens_chorus.html\">here &#8212; scroll way down<\/a>. It&#8217;s not to my taste, but you might like it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Near wrote the song &#8220;I Am Willing&#8221; in 2003. She sang it May 18, 2006, at a peace rally outside the White House, with Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow singing back-up. I learned this song from Laurie Loosigian, and it has become my new religio-political anthem. It&#8217;s easy to sing, with a powerful chorus: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-engaging-worship","tag-hymns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7392,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}