{"id":463,"date":"2024-12-24T21:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2024-12-24T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:28:29","slug":"prayer-what-a-friend-we-have-in-jesus-and-sweet-hour-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/prayer-what-a-friend-we-have-in-jesus-and-sweet-hour-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer: &#8220;What a Friend We Have in Jesus&#8221; and &#8220;Sweet Hour of Prayer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson<\/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 begin to form in his eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I went off to college, my brother said, he was the one my grandfather tapped to play his favorite hymn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controlsList=\"nodownload\" controls src=\"http:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-03-Prayer_-What-a-Friend-and-Sweet.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43,42,9,29],"tags":[35,48,44],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasons","category-hymn-tune","category-hymns","category-piano","category-preludes-and-postludes","tag-no-video","tag-recording","tag-vol1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}