{"id":161,"date":"2025-08-06T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/?p=161"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:27:22","slug":"we-are-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/news\/we-are-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"We are loved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That&#8217;s the title of my new song, released today through <a href=\"https:\/\/unifiedpraise.com\/songs\/477-we-are-loved\">Unified Praise<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing church music of one kind or another for years, but my recent forays into oratorio and hymnody haven&#8217;t been quite as rewarding as thrashing a decent rock song out&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We are loved\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EMUgCtMDRMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is that song. I&#8217;ve written it inspired by the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.church-poverty.org.uk\">Church Action on Poverty<\/a>, whose 2025 campaign <em>Sharing our Dreams<\/em> features new songs by me and Rev Canon Nick Jowett. Do have a listen to the song. It&#8217;ll soon have a CCLI number, assuming it passes muster, and then I&#8217;ll be able to release it into church use properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS: Many thanks to Anna Crook and Andy Arnold who helped to shape the final recording with their immense talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of my new song, released today through Unified Praise. I&#8217;ve been writing church music of one kind or another for years, but my recent forays into oratorio and hymnody haven&#8217;t been quite as rewarding as thrashing a decent rock song out&#8230; And this is that song. I&#8217;ve written it inspired by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[7,119,118,9,114,49,5,29,117,116,115],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-music","category-news","tag-andrew-clayton","tag-andy-arnold","tag-anna-crook","tag-church","tag-church-action-on-poverty","tag-church-music","tag-music","tag-new-music","tag-new-song","tag-unified-praise","tag-we-are-loved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}