{"id":233,"date":"2023-12-02T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2023-12-23T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:31:35","slug":"in-the-darkened-days-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/in-the-darkened-days-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Darkened Days of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About the turn of the century my brother Steve wrote a marvelous hymn. I was so moved by it, that I added a verse, trying to tie the hymn to a scripture passage normally read in advent.<br>It is clear to all, from even a cursory reading, that the better poet is Steve. He is EXTREMELY gifted with words. I usually run all of my lyrics (verses) by him &#8212; and he improves them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The created the tune particularly for the hymn and The General Board of Discipleship of our denomination published both words and music. Here was the URL at the time:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbod.org\/resources\/in-the-darkened-days-of-winter-burnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">http:\/\/www.gbod.org\/resources\/in-the-darkened-days-of-winter-burnett <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the hymn can be sung to my tune, it can also be sung to Natalie Sleeth&#8217;s hymn tune, &#8220;Promise,&#8221; or to &#8220;Beach Spring,&#8221; or to &#8220;Hyfrydol,&#8221; the familiar tune for &#8220;Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. About the turn of the century my brother Steve wrote a marvelous hymn. I was so moved by it, that I added a verse, trying to tie the hymn to a scripture passage normally read in advent.It is clear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,4,42,10,9],"tags":[36,35,44],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","category-choral","category-christmas","category-hymns","category-organ","category-piano","tag-no-midi","tag-no-video","tag-vol1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}