{"id":33444,"date":"2016-05-25T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33444"},"modified":"2016-09-04T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:36:57","slug":"monks-beat-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/monks-beat-taylor-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Monks beat Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5hud0\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Norcia-monks-chanting.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33445 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Norcia-monks-chanting-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Norcia monks chanting\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Norcia-monks-chanting-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Norcia-monks-chanting-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Norcia-monks-chanting-142x88.jpg 142w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Norcia-monks-chanting.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you can imagine the headline that &#8220;Monks beat Taylor Swift&#8221; in record sales, then you know Church tradition is right. Music sales of chant always seem to do well. The chant\u00a0has a transcendent quality which makes the music quite\u00a0attractive. I know non-Christian people listen to chant because it puts them in a peaceful &#8220;zone&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\">Here is a very brief, but yet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/monks-of-norcia-benedicta-marian-chant\"><strong>another article on the Benedictine monks in Norica<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(the article is old) and their CD: &#8220;Benedicta: Marian Chant.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\">The monks also make a beer which I find to be better than the beer made by the Trappist monks in Spencer, MA.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c2b16-0-0\">The Benedictine monks of the <a href=\"http:\/\/osbnorcia.org\/en\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">St. Benedict Monastery in Norcia<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Italy are the real deal and living their vocation!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can imagine the headline that &#8220;Monks beat Taylor Swift&#8221; in record sales, then you know Church tradition is right. Music sales of chant always seem to do well. The chant\u00a0has a transcendent quality which makes the music quite\u00a0attractive. I know non-Christian people listen to chant because it puts them in a peaceful &#8220;zone&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/monks-beat-taylor-swift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monks beat Taylor Swift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2371,32162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33448,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33444\/revisions\/33448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}