{"id":4981,"date":"2011-12-17T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2011-12-17T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:37:22","slug":"lux-aurumque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/lux-aurumque.html","title":{"rendered":"Lux Aurumque"},"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>Christmas music composed by Eric Whitacre. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/anthonysilvestri\/Poetry\/Lux_Aurumque.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The words are a Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri of an English poem by Edward Esch<\/a>. 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