{"id":11710,"date":"2012-12-24T06:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=11710"},"modified":"2012-12-24T06:53:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:53:27","slug":"a-spotless-rose-paul-mealor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/a-spotless-rose-paul-mealor.html","title":{"rendered":"A Spotless Rose (Paul Mealor)"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Mealor: A Spotless Rose (A Tender Light)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbR5p34-grc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>I heard this performed by the Luther College Nordic Choir in the Christmas concert from Luther College on PBS and enjoyed it enough to track down a recording and share it!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this performed by the Luther College Nordic Choir in the Christmas concert from Luther College on PBS and enjoyed it enough to track down a recording and share it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1804,1809,1852,7803,8835],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-choir","tag-choral","tag-christmas","tag-music","tag-paul-mealor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Spotless Rose (Paul Mealor)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I heard this performed by the Luther College Nordic Choir in the Christmas concert from Luther College on PBS and enjoyed it enough to track down a\" \/>\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\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/a-spotless-rose-paul-mealor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Spotless Rose (Paul Mealor)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I heard this performed by the Luther College Nordic Choir in the Christmas concert from Luther College on PBS and enjoyed it enough to track down a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/a-spotless-rose-paul-mealor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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