{"id":1790,"date":"2011-08-11T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2013-04-04T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:54:49","slug":"chrysostom-psalm-singing-leads-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"Chrysostom, Psalm Singing Leads to Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1792\" title=\"john_chrysostom 2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/john_chrysostom-2-230x300.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/john_chrysostom-2-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/john_chrysostom-2.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you wish to be happy? Do you want to know how to spend the day truly blessed? I offer you a drink that is spiritual. This is not a drink for drunkenness that would cut off even meaningful speech. This does not cause us to babble. It does not disturb our vision. Here it is: Learn to sing Psalms! Then you will see pleasure indeed. Those who have learned to sing with the psalms are easily filled with the Holy Spirit.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>(Chrysostom, Homily on Ephesians 19.5.19-21; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0830824936\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0830824936\">Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0830824936&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you wish to be happy? Do you want to know how to spend the day truly blessed? I offer you a drink that is spiritual. This is not a drink for drunkenness that would cut off even meaningful speech. This does not cause us to babble. It does not disturb our vision. Here it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Chrysostom, Psalm Singing Leads to Happiness&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}