{"id":8543,"date":"2020-05-29T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2020-05-29T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T03:31:09","slug":"a-world-of-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8543","title":{"rendered":"A World of Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Johnson-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Johnson-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Johnson-12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Johnson-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Johnson-12-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shared capacity to sing points to the many deep genetic connections that link humans to other living beings.  In a beautiful article Rhodora Beaton eloquently states, &#8220;The image of singing as we go invites a broader vision of the journey song, one that includes the duets of gibbons, the beat-keeping dances of parrots, and the elaborate and distinctive calls of whales and other aquatic mammals.&#8221;  Humans do not sing alone but raise their voices with a world of singers sharing the journey of life together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Elizabeth A. Johnson, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/creation_and_the_cross.html\">Creation and the Cross<\/a><\/em>, p. 221<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  South Riding, Virginia, April 22, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shared capacity to sing points to the many deep genetic connections that link humans to other living beings. In a beautiful article Rhodora Beaton eloquently states, &#8220;The image of singing as we go invites a broader vision of the journey song, one that includes the duets of gibbons, the beat-keeping dances of parrots, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,41,55,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-creativity","category-delight","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}