{"id":4316,"date":"2007-12-21T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2007-12-21T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T17:30:22","slug":"unsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/unsung\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the bells on Christmas Day<br \/>\nTheir old, familiar carols play,<!--more--><br \/>\n    And wild and sweet<br \/>\n    The words repeat<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men! <\/p>\n<p>And thought how, as the day had come,<br \/>\nThe belfries of all Christendom<br \/>\n    Had rolled along<br \/>\n    The unbroken song<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men! <\/p>\n<p>Till, ringing, singing on its way,<br \/>\nThe world revolved from night to day,<br \/>\n    A voice, a chime,<br \/>\n    A chant sublime<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men! <\/p>\n<p>Then from each black, accursed mouth<br \/>\nThe cannon thundered in the South,<br \/>\n    And with the sound<br \/>\n    The carols drowned<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men! <\/p>\n<p>It was as if an earthquake rent<br \/>\nThe hearth-stones of a continent,<br \/>\n    And made forlorn<br \/>\n    The households born<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men! <\/p>\n<p>And in despair I bowed my head;<br \/>\n&#8220;There is no peace on earth,&#8221; I said:<br \/>\n    &#8220;For hate is strong,<br \/>\n    And mocks the song<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:<br \/>\n&#8220;God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!<br \/>\n    The Wrong shall fail,<br \/>\n    The Right prevail,<br \/>\nWith peace on earth, good-will to men!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1864:  One year after his son was severely wounded in battle; three years after his wife burned to death in an accident.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","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\/4316","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}