{"id":88,"date":"2005-12-19T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-02-11T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T03:52:14","slug":"zinging-the-living-tradition-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Zinging the Living Tradition redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on the Christmas eve service today. We&#8217;ve had to print up a little booklet with the old, familiar words to the Christmas carols so we don&#8217;t have to sing the new, revised words in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, <em>Singing the Living Tradition.<\/em> Because of that, I will just have to inflict on you, o hapless reader, yet another parody of a hymn from <em>Singing the Living Tradition:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy of New Words!<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>sung to the tune of #245<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Be reassured! We&#8217;ve changed the words<br \/>\nOf all your Christmas songs.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve made them up to date,<br \/>\nGot rid of words we hate.<br \/>\n(And made them all sound wrong,<br \/>\nand made them all sound wrong,<br \/>\nand made &#8212; and made, them all sound wrong!)<\/p>\n<p>For far too long, those bad old songs<br \/>\nOur hearts and minds infect&#8217;d!<br \/>\nBut now we&#8217;ve bowlderized,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve totally revised:<br \/>\nPolitic&#8217;lly correct&#8217;d,<br \/>\nPolitic&#8217;lly correct&#8217;d,<br \/>\nPoli &#8212; poli-tic&#8217;lly correct&#8217;d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on the Christmas eve service today. We&#8217;ve had to print up a little booklet with the old, familiar words to the Christmas carols so we don&#8217;t have to sing the new, revised words in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition. Because of that, I will just have to inflict on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}