{"id":2429,"date":"2008-11-28T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2008-11-28T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T15:24:27","slug":"jw-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/11\/jw-video\/","title":{"rendered":"JW Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to mention Spiritual Brother&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualbrother.blogspot.com\/\">Bible Research blog<\/a> for its stunning collection of Jehovah&#8217;s Witness videos and documents. <\/p>\n<p>I had never seen <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualbrother.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/pastor-russell-reading-studying-t-bible.html\">Pastor Russell preach<\/a> before, and now I can understand how liberating and authentic it must have seemed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post really got to me, so I&#8217;m posting the video from YouTube. Historical photographs are set to a group of people singing the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sing_Praises_to_Jehovah\">Kingdom Song<\/a> &#8220;Take Sides with Jehovah!&#8221; (Exodus 32:26). It almost brought me to tears.  It must have been so different back then. The song never sounded like that at <em>my<\/em> Kingdom Hall.  For one thing, no-one was trained to sing the harmonies anymore.  Music with spirit was almost entirely gone. It&#8217;s still a very basic song, but it would have made those long meetings a lot more bearable if we could have created a beautiful sound of praise &#8211; with feeling and beauty &#8211; rather than a cold dirge. I remember people almost glaring sometimes at the few people who really sang. So sad. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5esaA1jjJDM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5esaA1jjJDM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to mention Spiritual Brother&#8217;s Bible Research blog for its stunning collection of Jehovah&#8217;s Witness videos and documents. I had never seen Pastor Russell preach before, and now I can understand how liberating and authentic it must have seemed at the time. Today&#8217;s post really got to me, so I&#8217;m posting the video from YouTube. Historical photographs are set to a group of people singing the Kingdom Song &#8220;Take Sides with Jehovah!&#8221; (Exodus 32:26). It almost brought me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/11\/jw-video\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,268,32],"tags":[6160,291,1114,5292,1529],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jehovahs-witnesses","category-music","category-video","tag-jehovahs-witnesses","tag-jws","tag-kingdom-hall","tag-kingdom-song","tag-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}