{"id":1575,"date":"2026-12-24T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-12-24T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:09:48","slug":"silent-night-was-performed-for-the-first-time-in-1818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Silent Night&#8221; Was Performed for the First Time in 1818"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15503\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15503\" class=\"wp-image-15503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sandie-Card-300x251-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"212\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creation by Sandie<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cSilent Night\u201d was performed for the first time in a small Austrian town in 1818<\/strong>. Franz Xavier Gruber developed the melody, and Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics. The original lyrics are in German, but it has been translated and performed in many other languages. The following site gives more information, as well as the lyrics in both German and English: <a href=\"http:\/\/german.about.com\/od\/christmas\/a\/StilleNacht.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silent Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSilent Night\u201d was performed for the first time in a small Austrian town in 1818. Franz Xavier Gruber developed the melody, and Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics. The original lyrics are in German, but it has been translated and performed in many other languages. The following site gives more information, as well as the lyrics <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1575' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4662,4661,4659,4660,4658],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4662","tag-december-24","tag-franz-xavier-gruber","tag-joseph-mohr","tag-silent-night","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29920,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/29920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}