{"id":355,"date":"2017-03-28T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amysmic\/?p=355"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:28:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:28:56","slug":"my-heart-ever-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"My Heart Ever Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The song \u201cMy Heart Ever Faithful\u201d from J. S. Bach\u2019s Cantata No. 68 has been special to me for many years. In college, I sang it at a joint senior recital with Patrick the same night we announced our engagement. These lyrics represented a beautiful promise set in motion as we began our lives together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>My heart ever faithful, Sing praises, be joyful, Thy Jesus is near;<br \/>\nAway with complaining, Faith ever maintaining, My Jesus is here;<br \/>\nMy heart ever faithful, Sing praises, be joyful, Thy Jesus is here!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once in a while, a vocal student of mine will work on this selection. Still today, these lyrics speak so simply and clearly to me. Nothing life throws at me can undo me if I will keep these truths in the forefront of my heart and mind. Be faithful! Sing His praises! He is near!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song \u201cMy Heart Ever Faithful\u201d from J. S. Bach\u2019s Cantata No. 68 has been special to me for many years. In college, I sang it at a joint senior recital with Patrick the same night we announced our engagement. These lyrics represented a beautiful promise set in motion as we began our lives together. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Heart Ever Faithful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}