{"id":1035,"date":"2010-07-26T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T17:03:20","slug":"early-sacred-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"early sacred harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this picture of psalm singers in colonial America, notice that they&#8217;re facing one another rather than an audience.  This is still how Sacred Harp is done.<\/p>\n<p>Engraving by Paul Revere included in William Billing&#8217;s &#8220;The New England Psalm Singer&#8221; (Boston, 1770):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/treasures\/images\/s24p1.jpg\" alt=\"Engraving by Paul Revere included in William Billing's \"The New England Psalm Singer\" (Boston, 1770)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hollow-square seating arrangement for Sacred Harp singing:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/95\/HollowSquareInSacredHarp.PNG\/300px-HollowSquareInSacredHarp.PNG\" alt=\"The hollow-square seating arrangement for Sacred Harp singing\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this picture of psalm singers in colonial America, notice that they&#8217;re facing one another rather than an audience. This is still how Sacred Harp is done. Engraving by Paul Revere included in William Billing&#8217;s &#8220;The New England Psalm Singer&#8221; (Boston, 1770): The hollow-square seating arrangement for Sacred Harp singing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}