{"id":6403,"date":"2023-11-16T06:31:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2023-11-16T06:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:40:46","slug":"o-little-town-it-takes-a-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/2023\/11\/16\/o-little-town-it-takes-a-village\/","title":{"rendered":"O Little Town-It Takes a Village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone needs a group of friends they can share life with, and these ladies are like my local family. In fact, one time I accidentally crashed their family reunion. Thirty-minutes into the party, someone finally asked how I was related and I was the party-crasher. However, rather than ask me to leave, they said I could pretend to be their long-lost cousin, and we\u2019ve considered each other practically family ever since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image000000.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image000000-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image000000-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Boehme, Wendy Boehme, and Caitlin Reichert\u00a0 are talented musicians as well as fellow teachers. It\u2019s wonderful to make music together, and we consider it our greatest privilege to share our faith and musical heritage with the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet, sign-up to receive an early release of the song!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td valign=\"top\">Subscribe for music updates! <\/td><td><div class=\"emaillist\" id=\"es_form_f2-n1\"><form action=\"\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403#es_form_f2-n1\" method=\"post\" class=\"es_subscription_form es_shortcode_form  es_ajax_subscription_form\" id=\"es_subscription_form_69edc3c059f60\" data-source=\"ig-es\" data-form-id=\"2\"><div class=\"es_caption\">Join one or both lists to catch my updates on music and music fiction.<\/div><div class=\"es-field-wrap ig-es-form-field\"><label class=\"es-field-label\">E-Mail*<br \/><input class=\"es_required_field es_txt_email ig_es_form_field_email ig-es-form-input\" type=\"email\" name=\"esfpx_email\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"\" required=\"required\" \/><\/label><\/div><div class=\"es-field-wrap es-list-field\"><p><b style=\"font-weight: 600; 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She and I played in the same Youth Symphony program, and even share the same maiden name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s a Christy Award-Winning author, and was published in the critically-acclaimed Christmas collection: O Little Town of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"O Little Town\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"525\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_kQ5emUqjVHezWg&#038;asin=B0B5B6VVMV&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my interview with Amanda!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rescot-creative wp-block-embed-rescot-creative\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eTZugUxPKQ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/2022\/08\/13\/the-songs-that-could-have-been-interview-and-giveaway-with-musician-author-amanda-wen\/\">The Songs That Could Have Been-Interview and Giveaway With Musician\/Author Amanda Wen<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Songs That Could Have Been-Interview and Giveaway With Musician\/Author Amanda Wen&#8221; &#8212; Rescot Creative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/2022\/08\/13\/the-songs-that-could-have-been-interview-and-giveaway-with-musician-author-amanda-wen\/embed\/#?secret=ZvmFy9gKQa#?secret=eTZugUxPKQ\" data-secret=\"eTZugUxPKQ\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-amanda-wen wp-block-embed-amanda-wen\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oDstRVTFWO\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amandawen.com\/books\/o-little-town\/\">O Little Town<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;O Little Town&#8221; &#8212; Amanda Wen\" src=\"https:\/\/amandawen.com\/books\/o-little-town\/embed\/#?secret=vSf87ZTAW6#?secret=oDstRVTFWO\" data-secret=\"oDstRVTFWO\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone needs a group of friends they can share life with, and these ladies are like my local family. In fact, one time I accidentally crashed their family reunion. Thirty-minutes into the party, someone finally asked how I was related and I was the party-crasher. However, rather than ask me to leave, they said I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/2023\/11\/16\/o-little-town-it-takes-a-village\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Little Town-It Takes a Village&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["en","es","fr","de","it","br"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"br":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}