{"id":41,"date":"2014-06-20T23:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-06-20T23:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T23:27:45","slug":"all-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"All State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited seven of my former students from the music ministry of FBC Statesboro at the Georgia Baptist All-State Choir and Orchestra rehearsal in Toccoa. Saturday morning, these students with over one hundred of their peers will head for Baltimore and Washington DC for concerts and mission projects.<\/p>\n<p>I am so honored to have been part of these students lives through the years as they have sung and played with the FBC Music Ministry while I was Minister of Music.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest joys of retirement is that I am thrilled to connect with students, like these, who served with me as long a forty-five years ago. What a joy to connect with there dear friends, most of which are parents and some grandparents. I would love to know how many have sung and played with me these past fifty years, I know the number is in the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Father, for the marvelous joy of singing\/playing and teaching others to sing\/play in worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited seven of my former students from the music ministry of FBC Statesboro at the Georgia Baptist All-State Choir and Orchestra rehearsal in Toccoa. Saturday morning, these students with over one hundred of their peers will head for Baltimore and Washington DC for concerts and mission projects. I am so honored to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}