{"id":10345,"date":"2023-08-01T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:09:40","slug":"good-christian-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2023\/08\/01\/good-christian-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Christian Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nChristian music doesn&#8217;t have to be hateful or suck, as Flamy Grant here proves:\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlsVNigFByk\" title=\"Flamy Grant - What Did You Drag Me Into? [Official Video]\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s sent her to the top of the charts which means there are a lot of Christians out there not afraid of inclusion. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-drag-queen-became-christian-musics-top-musician-1816459#Echobox=1690830222\">she puts it<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I think one of the reasons my song resonated with people is because people are tired of all the religious gatekeeping, and &#8216;Good Day&#8217; is an anthem of inclusion,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She continued: &#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful to everyone who is sharing my music, and I hope it does a small part to drown out the message of exclusion and disgust for queer people that has come to be a defining marker of conservative American Christianity.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIn a world where it often seems Christianity is just a synonym for bigotry, it&#8217;s good to see inclusion win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian music doesn&#8217;t have to be hateful or suck, as Flamy Grant here proves: It&#8217;s sent her to the top of the charts which means there are a lot of Christians out there not afraid of inclusion. As she puts it: &#8220;I think one of the reasons my song resonated with people is because people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}