{"id":296,"date":"2023-12-02T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2023-12-23T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:31:35","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written for piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This piano medley is a combination of the Converse tune for the hymn, &#8220;What a Friend We Have in Jesus,&#8221; and the Sweet Hour tune for the hymn, &#8220;Sweet Hour of Prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote this in memory of my imperfect, racist, yet loving grandfather. As soon as I was sufficiently proficient at playing hymns, every time I would visit him he would say to me, &#8220;Ivan, Jr., play my hymn.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t have to ask which one he meant. I knew. It was &#8220;What a Friend We Have in Jesus.&#8221; And, every time I would play it, I would see tears began to form in his eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I went off to college, my brother said that he was the one my grandfather tapped to play his favorite hymn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to a soulless, computer generated, MIDI recording of this piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controlsList=\"nodownload\" controls src=\"http:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Prayer4a.wav\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written for piano. This piano medley is a combination of the Converse tune for the hymn, &#8220;What a Friend We Have in Jesus,&#8221; and the Sweet Hour tune for the hymn, &#8220;Sweet Hour of Prayer.&#8221; I wrote this in memory of my imperfect, racist, yet loving grandfather. As soon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,32],"tags":[35,44],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-piano","category-preludes-and-postludes","category-year-round","tag-no-video","tag-vol1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}