{"id":1000,"date":"2014-02-17T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2014-02-17T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:58:12","slug":"north-staffordshire-souling-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2014\/02\/17\/north-staffordshire-souling-song\/","title":{"rendered":"North Staffordshire Souling Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a go at putting the North Staffordshire <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2014\/02\/16\/miss-keary-rescues-the-north-staffordshire-halloween-song\/\">Souling Song c.1894<\/a> into a more singable form, added a rhyme back in on the fourth line, and stripped out the clunky Christianising of the end lines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoul, soul, an apple or two<br \/>\nIf y&#8217;ave non apples, pears u&#8217;ll do ;<br \/>\nUp wi&#8217; your kettles, down with y&#8217; pans,<br \/>\nPray, good missus, a soul-cake, do!<\/p>\n<p>Souling-day comes once a year<br \/>\nWhen it comes, it finds us &#8216;ere.<br \/>\nThe cock sits up in t&#8217; yew-tree,<br \/>\nThe hens came cackling by,<br \/>\nI wish yer a merry Christmas,<br \/>\nAnd a good fat pig i\u2019 the stye.<\/p>\n<p>All us stand at yonder gate<br \/>\nA&#8217; waiting for a souling-cake ;<br \/>\nOne for sorrow, two for joy,<br \/>\nThree for a star to sail o&#8217;er all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a go at putting the North Staffordshire Souling Song c.1894 into a more singable form, added a rhyme back in on the fourth line, and stripped out the clunky Christianising of the end lines&#8230; \u201cSoul, soul, an apple or two If y&#8217;ave non apples, pears u&#8217;ll do ; Up wi&#8217; your kettles, down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}