{"id":53,"date":"2013-06-18T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T03:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2016-11-28T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T04:44:18","slug":"soothing-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Soothing Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have days when it is difficult to be peaceful.  Life can deal its share of stresses and sorrows.  One of God&#8217;s prescriptions for calming the soul is quiet, soothing music.  I often find relaxation in sitting at my piano and simply playing a couple of songs.  At other times, I pick up my MP3 player and headphones, and sit quietly, listening to some of my favorite selections.  When I settle down, it is much easier to think, pray and otherwise function.\n<\/p>\n<p>The past few days have been difficult.  In times like this, I need to experience things such as beautiful music so that I can focus on God and his goodness.  I would like to share some of my music with you for your enjoyment.  I hope it will serve to settle and quiet your heart.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeleah.com\/lwx.html\">Click here and enjoy!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have days when it is difficult to be peaceful. Life can deal its share of stresses and sorrows. One of God&#8217;s prescriptions for calming the soul is quiet, soothing music. I often find relaxation in sitting at my piano and simply playing a couple of songs. At other times, I pick up my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[8,9,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeleah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}