{"id":4418,"date":"2025-12-18T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:37:35","slug":"playlist-christmas-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/playlists\/playlist-christmas-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Playlist: Christmas favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When invited to share their favorite Christmas music, Church of the Brethren staff and volunteers responded enthusiastically. The playlist of their selections has over 70 songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a few contributor comments:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I love most Christmas music. It\u2019s hard to pick a favorite.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Good King Wenceslas is a favorite of mine. I saw his crypt when I was in Prague. I really like the story of the song and I remember learning to play it on the piano when I was young.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This always seems to bring tears to my eyes\u2026 &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I love absolutely anything from &#8220;Amahl and the Night Visitors&#8221; by Gian Carlo Menotti, which is my all-time favorite Christmas music.&nbsp;I can remember that we watched this every year as a family when I was little.&nbsp;It first came out a few years before I was born but it seemed to be shown on TV every year and I loved it and still do.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These Christmas songs always bring me joy and get me in the Christmas spirit!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To listen to the Spotify list, you will need to create a (free) account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spotify playlist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/2sknovQVraV40vOJDhkrqn?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YouTube playlist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christmas Favorites\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLPwg6iPFotfj6s6DJajTYrGK4d9dHfPly\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church of the Brethren staff share their favorite Christmas music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[277,410],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playlists","tag-christmas","tag-playlist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}