{"id":17579,"date":"2020-12-24T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T04:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=17579"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:57:43","slug":"christmas-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/12\/24\/christmas-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Christmas.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-367918\" title=\"Christmas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Christmas-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\"><\/a>I heard the bells on Christmas Day<br \/>\nTheir old, familiar carols play,<br \/>\nAnd wild and sweet<br \/>\nThe words repeat<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!<\/p>\n<p>And thought how, as the day had come,<br \/>\nThe belfries of all Christendom<br \/>\nHad rolled along<br \/>\nThe unbroken song<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Candle-Burning.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-296412\" title=\"Candle Burning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Candle-Burning-480x340.jpg\" alt=\"Candle Burning\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\"><\/a><!--more-->Till, ringing, singing on its way<br \/>\nThe world revolved from night to day,<br \/>\nA voice, a chime,<br \/>\nA chant sublime<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!<\/p>\n<p>Then from each black, accursed mouth<br \/>\nThe cannon thundered in the South,<br \/>\nAnd with the sound<br \/>\nThe Carols drowned<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!<\/p>\n<p>And in despair I bowed my head;<br \/>\n&#8216;There is no peace on earth,&#8217; I said;<br \/>\n&#8216;For hate is strong,<br \/>\nAnd mocks the song<br \/>\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:<br \/>\n&#8216;God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!<br \/>\nThe Wrong shall fail,<br \/>\nThe Right prevail,<br \/>\nWith peace on earth, good-will to men!&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[12599,4,5817,1150,12600],"class_list":["post-17579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-carolers","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-day","tag-god","tag-henry-wadsworth-longfellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17580,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions\/17580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}