{"id":10817,"date":"2014-12-21T06:17:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T06:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2014-12-21T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T06:17:57","slug":"a-carol-service-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2014\/12\/21\/a-carol-service-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A carol service by any other name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Festively feckless<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Every year it happens.\u00a0 On the last Sunday evening before Christmas I stand there before a packed church, looking out at the expectant faces reflected in the candles&#8217; glow. There are young and old, stranger and friend, neighbours and cousins and work colleagues and everyone in between. As I stand to welcome them, I draw a breath , and find myself incapable of formulating the triplet of words for which I am searching : <em>&#8216;carols by candlelight&#8217;.<\/em> Over the years it has come out as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carols by carol-light<\/li>\n<li>Candles by carol-light<\/li>\n<li>Carols by carol-light<\/li>\n<li>Candles by candlelight<\/li>\n<li>Our carol-lit service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year it has been made even worse by the launch of Amazon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Carols-Kindlelight-Tony-Grech-Smith\/dp\/B00QU3DAAS\/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419142577&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=carols+by+kindlelight\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Carols by Kindle-light&#8217;<\/a> to further mess with my head.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic below is made up of the phrase <em>&#8216;carols by candlelight&#8217;<\/em> in 20 languages. May it lighten the darkness of my fellow-sufferers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twenty.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10819 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twenty-199x300.png\" alt=\"twenty\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twenty-199x300.png 199w, http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twenty.png 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festively feckless Every year it happens.\u00a0 On the last Sunday evening before Christmas I stand there before a packed church, looking out at the expectant faces reflected in the candles&#8217; glow. There are young and old, stranger and friend, neighbours &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2014\/12\/21\/a-carol-service-by-any-other-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10821,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions\/10821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}