{"id":9732,"date":"2025-12-16T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:39:12","slug":"while-shepherds-watches-their-flocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/while-shepherds-watches-their-flocks\/","title":{"rendered":"While Shepherds Watches Their Flocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_6701.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_6701-712x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_6701-712x1024.jpeg 712w, https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_6701-209x300.jpeg 209w, https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_6701-768x1105.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_6701.jpeg 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1 While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground; the angel of the Lord came down, and glory shone around, and glory shone around.<br>2 \u201cFear not!\u201d said he, for mighty dread had seized their troubled mind. \u201cGlad tidings of great joy I bring to all of humankind, to all of humankind.\u201d<br>3 \u201cTo you, in David\u2019s town, this day is born of David\u2019s line a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, and this shall be the sign, and this shall be the sign:\u201d<br>\u00a04 \u201cThe heavenly babe you there shall find to human view displayed, all meanly wrapped in swathing bands, and in a manger laid, and in a manger laid.\u201d<br>5 Thus spake the seraph and forthwith appeared a shining throng of angels praising God on high, who thus addressed their song, who thus addressed their song:<br>6 \u201cAll glory be to God on high, and to the earth be peace; good will henceforth from heaven to earth begin and never cease, begin and never cease!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground; the angel of the Lord came down, and glory shone around, and glory shone around.2 \u201cFear not!\u201d said he, for mighty dread had seized their troubled mind. \u201cGlad tidings of great joy I bring to all of humankind, to all of humankind.\u201d3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/while-shepherds-watches-their-flocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;While Shepherds Watches Their Flocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choir-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}