{"id":566,"date":"2023-12-24T02:56:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidneysings.wordpress.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2023-12-24T02:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T02:56:42","slug":"joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas, Lovelies!<\/p>\n<div>Did the most wonderful time of the year sneak up on you, too?  I can&#8217;t believe 2023 has come and gone and we&#8217;re now in the throes of the holiday season. The theme of this year\u2019s album is \u201cJoy\u201d and y\u2019all are getting extra tracks this year. I sat and thought about the songs that gave me joy to sing, and that\u2019s what we have on this year\u2019s album: all of my favorites &#8211; I even snuck in Leonard Cohen\u2019s Hallelujah, which isn\u2019t a holiday classic, but has the word &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; in it so I feel like it is at least, for my purposes, holiday adjacent. &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; is also featured this year, and it is performed the exact same way you sing it in the car. Tell me I\u2019m wrong.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>I hope your holiday season has been filled with joy, and that this album will be the sugar on top. I sang each song with my whole heart, and I hope that comes through when you listen.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>Love one another, be kind, and above else, believe in the magic and miracles of this wondrous season.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>\nSing loudly, shine brightly, and BE MERRY!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nSidney\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas, Lovelies! Did the most wonderful time of the year sneak up on you, too? I can&#8217;t believe 2023 has come and gone and we&#8217;re now in the throes of the holiday season. The theme of this year\u2019s album is \u201cJoy\u201d and y\u2019all are getting extra tracks this year. I sat and thought about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidneysings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}