{"id":11295,"date":"2025-08-08T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11295"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:42:59","slug":"amazing-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/amazing-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

I originally learned to sing Amazing Grace when I was with Miriam and Rebecca a zillion years ago. Many books and histories have been written about it. The apocryphal background to the song is of the author who was on a ship that had slaves; the ship sank in a storm and as slaves and freemen alike were washing up on the shore, some living, some not, he had an epiphany about slavery and life.<\/p>\n

When Abigail was born, it became a song I sang to her a lot. As a 10 year-old, when Abigail has had a particularly bad day, or a particularly good day, she asks me to sing it. Here are two live recordings.<\/p>\n

June 18th, 2015. Abigail is 5 months old.<\/p>\n

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July 7th, 2017, Abigail is 2 1\/2 years old.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/recording-20170711-132022-Lee-sings-Amazing-Grace-to-Abigail.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I originally learned to sing Amazing Grace when I was with Miriam and Rebecca a zillion years ago. Many books and histories have been written about it. The apocryphal background to the song is of the author who was on a ship that had slaves; the ship sank in a storm and as slaves and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11299,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions\/11299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}