{"id":29805,"date":"2020-04-29T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/?p=29805"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:17:48","slug":"orthodox-how-to-why-do-we-sing-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/orthodox-how-to-why-do-we-sing-so-much","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox How To: Why Do We Sing So Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29806 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/11265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why do we sing so much?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s hard to find anything in Orthodox worship which isn\u2019t sung. This is because traditional Jewish services were (and are) sung.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_e50J2VpW48?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Apostles were Jewish, and that\u2019s how they grew up worshipping, so naturally that\u2019s how early Christians worshiped. Orthodox Byzantine chant must have developed out of Hebrew chant. (The notion that the early Christians had simple free-form services is made up out of \u201cwhole cloth\u201d. Where does it say that in the Bible?) Orthodox worship was naturally simplified when services were held secretly during persecution, but as soon as Christians were free again they returned to normal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">S<\/span>o far as we know, no ancient religion had \u201csimple said services\u201d. It never occurred to anyone to just stand before God or the gods and talk as to an ordinary person. God is holy. God is wonderful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0God is awesome.\u00a0<\/span>Music expresses the mystery, the wonder, the holy fear, the joy of being in his presence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Maybe I shouldn\u2019t add this, but I think it\u2019s worth saying. Once I attended a contemporary \u201cBible church\u201d service where\u00a0the pastor delivered a superb sermon about the holiness of God \u2013 only to be followed by a\u00a0sentimental \u201ctwang\u00a0twang twang\u201d\u00a0guitar song. I wanted to cry out \u201cIchabod!\u201d, \u201cthe glory has\u00a0departed!\u201d \u00a0But I didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Here is a video about the significance of Orthodox Church music. It refers to Byzantine chant \u2013\u00a0which may\u00a0seem strange to non-Orthodox, and maybe even to some Orthodox, as it did to me at the\u00a0beginning, but now I love it. The video could just as easily be about Russian or Serbian or Romanian or some other Orthodox music. I just think this is a\u00a0particularly good explanation. At the conclusion, use your return arrow above to get back to the Post.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goarch.org\/-\/why-do-we-sing-in-church-\">https:\/\/www.goarch.org\/-\/why-do-we-sing-in-church-<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Apostolic Church and up till at least the Fourth Century, the people did much of the singing. The parts of our Liturgy books which direct the \u201cchoir\u201d to sing originally belonged to the people. This changed after the \u201cestablishment\u201d of the Church, when music was allowed to develop and it became more complicated \u2013 it\u2019s the nature of everything to get more complex as time goes on \u2013 but very hard for ordinary folks to sing, so the choir or cantors took over.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjjGKF3eBQ4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of Orthodox choir music is very lovely \u2013 a<i>s above which I think is the very best of it.\u00a0Continue on to the next\u00a0<\/i><em>video<\/em><i>\u00a0\u2013 Saint Nektarios\u2019 popular hymn which many Orthodox\u00a0people love to sing.<\/i>\u00a0It troubles me in Greece when people now stand there totally silent during worship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent times, the ancient tradition of congregational singing is being revived in some places, especially in the New World. Our late Antiochian Metropolitan Philip promoted it. We at Saint Nicholas, Cedarburg, followed his direction. Our people sing well, even some simple basic Byzantine chant. I think this is good: \u201cHow we worship is what we believe.\u201d And so the teachings of the Church enter not only into our ears and souls but also into our minds \u2013 for if you sing something you easily remember the words.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why only male clergy? Why only males in the Altar? *<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><i>The \u201cAltar\u201d in Orthodox terminology means the entire area behind the iconostasis. The Holy Table itself is also often called the Altar. Is everything\u00a0clear now?!\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Should I get into this subject? Oh, why not? Nobody can shoot me through the computer. Were I in a Western denomination I would worry somebody might try, or send a hit man (hit woman?) after me! There people feel so very strongly about this issue.\u00a0In the Episcopal Church we fought like cats and dogs about it, before \u201cwe\u201d lost. Roman Catholics are still divided about it, with many clergy and laypeople all for it, and Pope Francis sounds as if he might like to be, but dare not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I was amazed that women\u2019s ordination doesn\u2019t seem to be an issue in the Orthodox Church. Or maybe people just don\u2019t try because they know nothing ever changes here?!\u00a0Anyway in thirty years I had two people ask me about it. In both cases I gave a very inadequate answer, and they said, Oh, I understand, and that was the end of that. (But\u00a0<em>I<\/em>\u00a0<em>don\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0understand\u2026!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not many years after I became Orthodox, I was our Milwaukee clergy fellowship\u2019s \u201cchaplain\u201d to the Milwaukee Orthodox Christian Women\u2019s Association\u2019s board. Their leaders were, I think, the most competent, organized, intelligent, \u201cput together\u201d group of people I have ever dealt with. At that time, our Metropolitan had just (wickedly!) appointed me to represent him at the national Convention of the Episcopal Church, and I knew I would be asked why we Orthodox chauvinist pigs oppress women. So I asked the OCWA board if women\u2019s ordination was an issue with them. Almost before I could get the words out of my mouth, I heard a resounding \u201cNo!\u201d Rather taken aback, I asked why not. They said, variously: Why would we want that? It\u2019s against the Tradition. But we already run the Church!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>But Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why is this not an issue in Orthodoxy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there a canon law forbidding it? Not that I know of. (Correct me if I\u2019m wrong. But in any event, Orthodox don\u2019t pay much attention to canon law.) The Orthodox Church does not have a clear theology about it. Like many things Orthodox, it just \u201cis\u201d, and continues without controversy \u2013 even among our people who in other respects are political and social liberals. (Shall I tell you that includes me? No.) This is one of the many ways we Orthodox remain about as counter-cultural as can be \u2013 in all directions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A book by Father Thomas Hopko (of blessed memory),\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2019\/10\/81rovYFOn5L._AC_UL320_SR212320_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"184\" \/><em>Women and the Priesthood<\/em>, published in 1983 but recently re-issued, is enlightening on the subject but not definitive. One point he makes is that ordination in the West seems to be mostly a \u201cpower\u201d issue. In the East, it\u2019s not. Explain that as you will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2026 \u2026 OK. If you won\u2019t try to explain it, I\u2019ll take a couple of guesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why is women\u2019s ordination not a \u201cpower\u201d issue here?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1 \u00a0<\/strong>Maybe it\u2019s because our bishops don\u2019t need much of a \u00a0top-down authority\/power structure. They certainly have the authority to step in when parishes have major problems or when priests go off a deep end. But the decisions of Orthodox bishops in council are accepted only if the people agree. We\u2019ve had plenty of councils which Orthodox people rejected. Our bishops and priests don\u2019t rule in an authoritarian way \u2013 and those who try to do so are laughed at and\/or ignored. This is very unlike Roman Catholics and even Anglicans. When I was Episcopalian, it was taken for granted that when some measure was passed at the national General Convention, that was that! so obey it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nor do Orthodox people need to be bullied by the clergy into believing the Faith, because we all agree about that \u2013 no problem.\u00a0Let me tell you (for the third time?) my favorite story of the time when the Church of England had just ordained as bishop a man who had denied the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection and God only knows what all else. A C of E layman asked a visitor from Orthodox Eastern Europe whether this could happen in his country. The Orthodox man said \u201cNo\u201d. The Anglican asked, \u201cWhy not?\u201d, wondering what sort of ecclesiastical court system or whatever would deal with it. The Orthodox visitor said, \u201cIn my country, if a bishop denied the Resurrection, the people would take him and throw him in the river.\u201d (That\u2019s why I take particular care not to go heretical during Wisconsin winter.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here, I think, is an outward sign of the Orthodox \u201cway\u201d:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9756 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2019\/10\/orth-priest-at-altar.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"158\" \/>In the Divine Liturgy the Orthodox priest stands most of the time with his back to his people,\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0them as Christ was, facing towards the Father. While in the Western Mass or Eucharistic service, the priest now stands facing the people, looking like he\u2019s with God, not with them. I know that wasn\u2019t the intention of the new Mass,\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9757 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2019\/10\/cath-prist-at-altar-177x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"154\" \/>but really, doesn\u2019t it \u201ccome off\u201d that way? While I was an Episcopalian priest, one Sunday right in the middle of Mass I suddenly thought \u201c<em>What ever am I doing back here<\/em>?\u201d and never celebrated Mass facing the people again.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2 \u00a0<\/strong>There is also the argument that because Christ was (and is) male, priests serving as his \u201cicons\u201d at the Divine Liturgy must also be male. I think there may be something to that. But all Christians are icons of Christ. He lives in all of us. All of us present him to the world. So I\u2019m not quite convinced by this. I\u2019ll welcome any comments on this explanation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3 \u00a0<\/strong>I\u00a0have another unformed thought: Over my 54 years as a pastor (there and \u00a0here) I believe that on the whole women are better pastors than men \u2013 with many exceptions, of course. Women have many and great gifts, and I dearly wish the Orthodox Church would make more use of them. However\u00a0I have also observed that when women are ordained as priests, theology tends to turn away from the supernatural revelation from on high in Jesus Christ, and moves towards natural earthly human reason and feeling. I think that deep down this has something to do with pagan sky gods and earth mothers, but I\u2019m not sure quite what.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a while the Episcopalian Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York had a \u201cfemale\u201d crucifix, \u201cChrista\u201d.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9760 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2019\/10\/christa.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"153\" \/><em>I\u2019m\u00a0<\/em><i>sorry to show you this \u2013 I hope I don\u2019t get kicked off Ancient Faith! but I think you really should see what\u2019s going on, God help us all.<\/i>\u00a0As time went on some Episcopalians began to baptize \u201cIn the name of the [impersonal] Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier\u201d and a few even \u201cIn the Name of the Mother, the Daughter and the Spirit\u201d! This is why my Antiochian Archdiocese has directed that when people come desiring Christmation into Orthodoxy, we should not automatically accept Baptisms from the Episcopal Church, and also from the United Church of Christ. In the preceding I don\u2019t mean to pick on the Anglicans. It\u2019s just that I knew them well for a quarter century. So in order to be fair, let me also mention that about twenty years ago some RC nuns in Milwaukee were actually worshiping the mother goddess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But to sum it all up: I don\u2019t know why only male priests and bishops. If you do, I\u2019d love to hear it in a comment below.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Acolytes<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acolytes are men and boys (\u201caltar boys\u201d) who assist at the Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We should note first that in New Testament times and later, the Church had Deaconesses who were \u201cset apart\u201d to minister to women in a society where men and women did not mix freely, certainly not alone. It seems very unlikely that they served in the Altar. Deaconessee officiated at women\u2019s Baptisms, since those baptized were immersed naked (sorry, I\u2019m not going to show you any more racy pictures) in \u201cliving water\u201d \u2013 outdoors at Pascha \u2013 brrr! The order of Deaconesses is canonical and could be revived, if need be. I heard somewhere that Saint Nektarios the Wonderworker ordained a couple of Deaconesses. Does anybody know if it\u2019s true?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But why only male acolytes and altar boys? Here, too, I have heard some explanations, but I don\u2019t think they make much sense. However, I don\u2019t\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9765 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2019\/10\/aolytes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"141\" \/>think it\u2019s chauvinism, for women have been accepted without controversy in every other role in Orthodoxy, including Parish Councils or Boards \u2013 and chairing them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have seen nuns assisting in the Altar at Liturgy, and girls as acolytes carrying candles, so long as it was outside the Altar area. All I know is that when I was a new Orthodox priest I once invited some women into the Altar to say the post-liturgical prayers as I consumed the Holy Gifts. They refused, horrified at the very idea! And so I learned \u201cwhat was what\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actually nobody is allowed in the Altar without a blessing. And almost anybody can be allowed in on business, with a blessing. Once a guy\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9766 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2019\/10\/altar.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>visiting from another parish came charging in without a blessing and began to talk with me while I was still consuming the Holy Gifts. I chased him out. He was upset. Good. He should have known better. He never came back to visit again. Tough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people today have absolutely have no appreciation of \u201choly places\u201d. I once hired a repair man to do something necessary in the Altar, gave him a blessing, and before I knew. he had put his tool box on the Holy Table! What has gone wrong in our society? Have people lost all sense of propriety, of the holy? I was gentle with him, simply explaining that we Orthodox don\u2019t do that. \u00a0But still\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So in all the above have I really explained anything? Again, no. Like many things Orthodox, they are as they are because that\u2019s the way they are.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a mystery!\u201d At least to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, and this is important, something has kept the Orthodox Church completely solid in the Faith for all these centuries, while everybody else seems to be slithering around. Whatever our \u201csystem\u201d, let\u2019s not mess around with it.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why no pipe organs in Orthodox churches?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actually, I have seen a couple of Orthodox churches with little Hammond organs, about which the less said the better. Their purpose is to support the choir in singing multi-part harmony. I don\u2019t think choirs need it. And it\u2019s certainly not much help with traditional Orthodox music, whether Byzantine or the more modern Russian. They had simple pipe organs in ancient Greece, but they were never used in Orthodox church. In the West they soon were used in worship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let\u2019s ask it positively: Why only a cappella singing in the Orthodox Church? My theory is that this reflects the Orthodox understanding of Church authority. (Who would have guessed?) In Western Christianity, the Faith is generally \u201cimposed\u201d externally \u2013 whether from the Papacy or from the Scriptures \u2013 and is something to be obeyed and followed. In the East the Holy Spirit dwells within each of us\u00a0<em>Acts 1:14-17\u00a0<\/em>so there is no need for the Faith to be imposed from outside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So it is natural in the West to sing following an external \u201ccontrol\u201d, the organ.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcD8r3UOMrM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While we Orthodox naturally sing a cappella, from within us, all of us \u201ctuning\u201d to each other. This is the only explanation I can imagine.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HOb3r6GZJM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/147-more-questions-youve-always-intended-to-ask-about-orthodox-worship-but-never-got-around-to-part-two\/\">https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/frbill\/147-more-questions-youve-always-intended-to-ask-about-orthodox-worship-but-never-got-around-to-part-two\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we sing so much? 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