{"id":3614,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2022-03-10T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:14:12","slug":"feeling-like-a-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/feeling-like-a-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Like A Black Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling Like A Black Man <br \/>\nBy Al Staggs<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the melodies,<br \/>\nthe lyrics,<br \/>\nthe major keys of white kids<br \/>\nsinging songs of faith<br \/>\ndo not touch me<br \/>\nas the earthy, groaning<br \/>\nprotests of anguish<br \/>\nset to song,<br \/>\nthe music of black people<br \/>\nwho sing their songs from Memory,<br \/>\na Memory laced with desperation<br \/>\nwith the search for truth amid horror.<\/p>\n<p>The contexts of our lives<br \/>\nset the tonalities of our songs,<br \/>\nthe setting of our lives<br \/>\ndictate the lyrics we<br \/>\njoin to our tunes.<br \/>\nFor it`s not just heaven<br \/>\nthat is at stake.<br \/>\nIt is singing in the midst of hell<br \/>\nit is proclaiming the<br \/>\ntimeless truth in a world of countless trials.<br \/>\nThis is song, this is worship,<br \/>\nthis is music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling Like A Black Man By Al Staggs Hearing the melodies, the lyrics, the major keys of white ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25,56],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}