{"id":1702,"date":"2017-10-21T02:19:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T02:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2017-10-21T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T02:19:01","slug":"sing-unto-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Sing Unto the Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>While cleaning out files recently, my wife found a paper napkin with my handwriting in pencil as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>That Christians should sing is ever so right,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Everyone sings when its cheery and bright.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>It&#8217;s harder to sing when its dreary and stark,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The lost only notice when we sing in the dark&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Carbon 14 dating\u00a0 puts the time of this writing at about 3000 BC.\u00a0 However a careful examination of the paper napkin indicates that it is most likely from a Denny&#8217;s or Shoney&#8217;s restaurant and was probably written somewhere around 1980 AD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and\u00a0sing\u00a0praises unto thy name.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong> Psalm 18:49<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>But I will\u00a0sing\u00a0of thy power; yea, I will\u00a0sing\u00a0aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><strong>Psalm 59:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cleaning out files recently, my wife found a paper napkin with my handwriting in pencil as follows: That Christians should sing is ever so right, Everyone sings when its cheery and bright. It&#8217;s harder to sing when its dreary and stark, The lost only notice when we sing in the dark&#8230; Carbon 14 dating\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sing Unto the Lord!<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}