{"id":20415,"date":"2014-12-22T05:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=20415"},"modified":"2014-12-19T21:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:40:34","slug":"christmas-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Cheryl Magness offers <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/12\/11\/twelve-of-the-best-christmas-songs-you-may-not-have-heard\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twelve Of The Best Christmas Songs You May Not Have Heard<\/a>.\u00a0 She includes YouTube videos of the performances, and listening to them is a Christmas meditation in itself.<\/p>\n<p>What are your favorite Christmas songs?\u00a0 Give them, along your criteria for what makes them so good.<\/p>\n<p>HT:\u00a0 Mary Moerbe<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Magness offers Twelve Of The Best Christmas Songs You May Not Have Heard.\u00a0 She includes YouTube videos of the performances, and listening to them is a Christmas meditation in itself. What are your favorite Christmas songs?\u00a0 Give them, along your criteria for what makes them so good. HT:\u00a0 Mary Moerbe \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32],"tags":[2650,464,2909],"class_list":["post-20415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-music","tag-christianity-music","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-carols"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Songs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cheryl Magness offers Twelve Of The Best Christmas Songs You May Not Have Heard.\u00a0 She includes YouTube videos of the performances, and listening to them\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas Songs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cheryl Magness offers Twelve Of The Best Christmas Songs You May Not Have Heard.\u00a0 She includes YouTube videos of the performances, and listening to them\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cranach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cranachblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-22T10:55:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-12-20T02:40:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/\",\"name\":\"Christmas Songs\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-22T10:55:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-12-20T02:40:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\"},\"description\":\"Cheryl Magness offers Twelve Of The Best Christmas Songs You May Not Have Heard.\u00a0 She includes YouTube videos of the performances, and listening to them\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/12\/christmas-songs\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Christmas Songs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\",\"name\":\"Cranach\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\",\"name\":\"Gene Veith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Veith\"},\"description\":\"Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a writer and retired literature professor, serving as Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College. 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