{"id":19986,"date":"2013-12-19T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2013-12-19T07:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:36:43","slug":"a-composers-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/12\/a-composers-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"A Composer&#8217;s Christmas"},"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>If you are looking for a digital Christmas gift for someone, I would recommend considering the following, which I heard previously and loved and was lucky enough to get as an early Christmas gift this year: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QQTRWU\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000QQTRWU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Composer\u2019s Christmas<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QQTRWU\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. On this delightful album, Jeffrey Reid Baker arranges Christmas songs in the style of famous composers. My favorite is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QLDWBW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000QLDWBW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> \u201cO Come, O Come Emmanuel\u201d in the style of Rachmaninov\u2019s Piano Concerto No.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QQTRWU\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000QQTRWU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B000QQTRWU&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QQTRWU\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a digital Christmas gift for someone, I would recommend considering the following, which I heard previously and loved and was lucky enough to get as an early Christmas gift this year: A Composer\u2019s Christmas. 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