{"id":12936,"date":"2010-07-06T22:24:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2010-07-06T22:24:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:24:32","slug":"battle-hymn-verse-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/battle-hymn-verse-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Hymn, verse 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, we attended a family member\u2019s baby blessing in a Spanish Ward in Utah. My rudimentary high school Spanish was no help at all.<!--more--> For the hymns, I played \u201cname that tune\u201d by listening to the intro and then trying to find the matching words in the English hymn book as quickly as possible, a feat made more difficult by differing page numbers. The opening hymn was \u201cBattle Hymn of the Republic,\u201d which I thought was a perfectly appropriate nod to Independence Day while recognizing that many in the audience have more intimate feelings for different countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The jolt came when I quit singing after verse three (that\u2019s all there are in my hymnbook) and all my Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters continued with verse four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberhymnal.org\/htm\/b\/h\/bhymnotr.htm\">Cyberhymnal<\/a> tells me there are actually six verses in the hymn by Julia Ward Howe. Just out of curiosity, can some of you more musically-inclined bilingual persons tell me which verses are included in the Spanish hymnbook? Is it common that the songs vary between the hymnbooks created in different languages? Anyone know why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, we attended a family member\u2019s baby blessing in a Spanish Ward in Utah. My rudimentary high school Spanish was no help at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12938,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}