{"id":9717,"date":"2011-12-25T02:21:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/OldGuyQuotes\/statuses\/150838609157697536"},"modified":"2011-12-25T02:21:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T07:21:41","slug":"old-guy-hymns-joy-to-the-world-httpt-coawi4bpih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/12\/25\/old-guy-hymns-joy-to-the-world-httpt-coawi4bpih\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy to the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joy to the world; the Lord is come!<br \/>\nLet earth receive her King:<br \/>\nLet every heart prepare Him room,<br \/>\nAnd heaven and nature sing.<\/p>\n<p>Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns!<br \/>\nLet men their songs employ:<br \/>\nWhile fields, and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,<br \/>\nRepeat the sounding joy.<\/p>\n<p>No more let sins and sorrows grow,<br \/>\nNor thorns infest the ground;<br \/>\nHe comes to make His blessings flow<br \/>\nFar as the curse is found.<\/p>\n<p>He rules the world with truth and grace,<br \/>\nAnd makes the nations prove<br \/>\nThe glories of His righteousness,<br \/>\nAnd wonders of His love.<\/p>\n<p>~Isaac Watts~<\/p>\n<p>Our Own Hymn-Book (Pasadena, TX; Pilgrim Publications; 2002) p.66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Guy Hymns: Joy to the World! http:\/\/t.co\/aWI4bpIh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}