{"id":7081,"date":"2006-12-01T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:01:31","slug":"joy-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7081","title":{"rendered":"Joy To The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/JOY.gif\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Joy_To_The_World.MP3\">Joy To The World<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This is one of my favorite Christmas Carols. I decided to record it as an instrumental on my Rickenbacker 370\/12\/RM. Originally named &#8220;Antioch,&#8221; Mason&#8217;s original score said &#8220;from George Frederick Handel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tune is named after the city of Antioch, Syria, where believers were first called &#8220;Christians&#8221;;<br \/>\n    (Acts 11:26).<\/p>\n<p>Words: Isaac Watts, 1719<br \/>\nMusic: Lowell Mason, 1848<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n    Joy to the world, the Lord is come!<br \/>\n    Let earth receive her King;<br \/>\n    Let every heart prepare Him room,<br \/>\n    And heaven and nature sing,<br \/>\n    And heaven and nature sing,<br \/>\n    And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.<\/p>\n<p>    Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!<br \/>\n    Let men their songs employ;<br \/>\n    While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains<br \/>\n    Repeat the sounding joy,<br \/>\n    Repeat the sounding joy,<br \/>\n    Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.<\/p>\n<p>    No more let sins and sorrows grow,<br \/>\n    Nor thorns infest the ground;<br \/>\n    He comes to make His blessings flow<br \/>\n    Far as the curse is found,<br \/>\n    Far as the curse is found,<br \/>\n    Far as, far as, the curse is found.<\/p>\n<p>    He rules the world with truth and grace,<br \/>\n    And makes the nations prove<br \/>\n    The glories of His righteousness,<br \/>\n    And wonders of His love,<br \/>\n    And wonders of His love,<br \/>\n    And wonders, wonders, of His love.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Joy To The World This is one of my favorite Christmas Carols. I decided to record it as an instrumental on my Rickenbacker 370\/12\/RM. Originally named &#8220;Antioch,&#8221; Mason&#8217;s original score said &#8220;from George Frederick Handel.&#8221; The tune is named after the city of Antioch, Syria, where believers were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joy To The World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}