{"id":2093,"date":"2011-06-10T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2011-06-10T14:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:19:46","slug":"new-song-my-spirit-looks-to-god-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/06\/10\/new-song-my-spirit-looks-to-god-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"New Song:  My Spirit Looks to God Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new arrangement and recording of an old hymn from the <a href=\"http:\/\/originalsacredharp.com\/\">Sacred Harp<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;My Spirit Looks to God Alone&#8221;\u00a0 (Sacred Harp #26).\u00a0 The lyrics were written by the famous hymn writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Watts\">Isaac Watts<\/a> in 1719, and are based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2062&amp;version=NIV\">Psalm 62<\/a>.\u00a0 The arrangement in the<br \/>\nSacred Harp is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapenote.net\/26d.htm\">Samaria<\/a> tune.\u00a0 My arrangement is simple &#8212; voice and acoustic guitar, with a little synth padding, and some gongs.\u00a0 I thought the gongs added a nice, meditative touch to this somewhat somber yet hopeful song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new arrangement and recording of an old hymn from the Sacred Harp:\u00a0 &#8220;My Spirit Looks to God Alone&#8221;\u00a0 (Sacred Harp #26).\u00a0 The lyrics were written by the famous hymn writer Isaac Watts in 1719, and are based on Psalm 62.\u00a0 The arrangement in the Sacred Harp is based on the Samaria tune.\u00a0 My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-and-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-xL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}